Top 280 Good People Quotes

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people – God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad – and they had very little.

I want to go working with good people on something that’s good, because otherwise it’s a big waste of time. I don’t have that much time.

With young people, it’s how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it’s about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don’t have to play it – it’s just gotta be there, and if the story’s good and the script’s good, people will see it.

It’s more important to represent women as complete, whole, complicated humans as opposed to saintly, perfect women. The point isn’t that they have to be good people. It’s that they have to be people.

The technologists and entrepreneurs I know are generally good people. If they were given a choice, ‘Do your job and eliminate normal jobs’ or ‘Do your job and create abundant opportunities,’ they would choose the latter. Most of them would happily even take a small hit to do so. But this isn’t a choice they’re given.

There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good people from the Balkans as well.

I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play.

When you go to the darkest place, all reason and logic deserts you and you are very dependent on having good people around you.

When you’re young, you believe in the most basic things. You believe that there are good people around you. And you don’t just take things for granted, like the ocean or the sky, or even being able to dream, to have a vision, to have ambition. As you grow up, all that gets knocked out of you.

I think what we can do is make sure as conservatives that we elect good people to both the House, the Senate, and make sure that President Trump gets re-elected.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.

Flint’s got so many hardworking, good people who just want a fair shake and it starts with making sure their government is responsive and protecting them and making sure everyone’s got access to clean water.

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It’s the beginning of a great adventure, and we’re looking forward to it.

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

I don’t want to be an actress. I want to be doing good work that is well written and has good people in it.

There’re plenty of good people in football – mostly players and managers.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

I’ve never considered myself an actor; I get much more immediate satisfaction singing. If you sing good, people clap. On television, you never know whether you’ve done well or not.

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

I think people more and more are tired of the party system. People want good candidates and good people to win.

I have been lucky that good people have chosen me to be a part of their films, and I am really grateful.

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. ‘Cause I don’t think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be… but that isn’t necessarily all there is.

People want to offer opportunities to people they care about. They want to help people they believe are good people or have shared life experiences with.

When we do something good, people immediately follow it.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don’t know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us.

I’ve been surrounded by good people at West Virginia. That helped me a lot.

L.A. is kind of flat these days; I guess Austin and other places are like that now. But that’s what I wanted to get across: You could be as crazy as you wanted, and that was OK. You didn’t have to be good; people would still come and hear you.

You want to work with good people. When you’re working with good people, it frees you up. There’s nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don’t feel like you’re in good hands.

America is a great country. I’ve been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There’s just too much air-conditioning.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It’s the 5% who get seduced by power.

That’s what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

A lot of times in this business, we forget that we’re surrounded by a lot of really good people.

I’m always talking to people and they’re always telling me bad times never last so long. Good people last longer.

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we’re often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

It’s kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it’s like a circular motion and very sacred.

If I can convince people that good people don’t do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.

Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.

No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don’t want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.

I don’t expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that’s not in either economy’s interest.

Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and usurp the effort of good people that are trying to make things work.

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we’re playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don’t necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he’s given you.

I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it’s definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I’m sorted I’ve got good people around me.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

Even in the political arena, we need good people to join politics. I believe women can lead the country.

I attack ideas. I don’t attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can’t separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don’t want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.

Yes. I’m a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we’re working with Valentino. It’s fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It’s weird because their timetables are unbearable.