Good Person Quotes - Page 6

• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Baby, Lying, Thinking

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Don't we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be... doing that has nothing to do with enabling them or accepting what they do as okay by us. It has nothing to do with encouraging them in their practice of what you or I might feel or believe is wrong vs right.It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

  Daniel Pearce

  Believe, Gay, Good Friend

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• Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fun, Mean, Humble

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• A good person, striving dimly,
  Is well aware of the right path.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Path, Strive, Wells

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• My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

  Lykke Li

  Art, Reality, Escaping

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

  Brendon Burchard

  Good Life, Book, Writing

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• When I grew up in the church, we were praying because the Communists were going to come over and hang you upside down on a cross, and I so wanted to be a good person, and I had these rosary beads that I would sleep with every night, and I just wanted the blessed Virgin to be on my side.

  Susan Sarandon

  Blessed, Sleep, Night

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you
  have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mean, Fighting, Evil

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• I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

  Andrew Solomon

  Giving, Trying, Treating Others

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I've got a terrible person in me just as much as anybody else, and I think - I like to think I also have a really good person in me.

  Amy Schumer

  Thinking, Terrible, Persons

  "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

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• My father has this expression that you have to be able to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, you know, and know that you're a good person. If that's true and you feel good about yourself then that's all that matters no matter what other people's perceptions are.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Father, Eye, Mirrors

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The only person I do worry about, that I want to be a good person for, I think is my responsibility, is my sister. I'm going to be cool for you, okay. I like, I need to, I like being by myself right now. I think it's good for me.

  Britney Spears

  Responsibility, Thinking, Worry

  Interview with Diane Sawyer, "60 Minutes", November 23, 2003.

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• If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

  Ben Kingsley

  Would Be, Actors, Layers

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• That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.

  George Lucas

  Issues, Democracy, Doe

  "Democracy, Tyranny, And Star Wars" By Paul Davidson, www.ign.com. April 25, 2002.

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• A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Knowledge, Taoism

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• I try my best to be a good person and be the best I can be.

  Selena Gomez

  Trying, Being The Best, Persons

  "Selena Gomez Kisses and Tells (and Shows Off Fall's Prettiest Beauty Trends!)". Interview with Rajni Lucienne Jacques and Fiorella Valdesolo, www.glamour.com. August 7, 2011.

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  No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

  Meek Mill

  Successful, Matter, Good Things

  Supercross.com Interview, supercross.com. November 19, 2012.

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• You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others.

  Gerard Way

  Long, Looks, Matter

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.

  Steven Knight

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.

  Anna Karina

  Thinking, Years, Special

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ronaldinho is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, but neither are as good as Leo Messi. He holds numerous records, such as the most goals scored in a single La Liga season and the most goals scored in a calendar year. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. He has everything. We must protect him.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Cristiano Ronaldo, Player

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• Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Becoming

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

  Craig Zobel

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is more important to be a good person than a good player.

  Toni Nadal

  Player, Important, Persons

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• No. He'll get hurt, and he's a good person.

  Sergio Martinez

  Hurt, Motivation, Fighter

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