Top 590 Good Quotes

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
Steve Jobs
It's good to reflect on life and take a step back and s

It’s good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.
Floor Jansen
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
W. Edwards Deming
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
Ray Kroc
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
William H. McRaven
There’s definitely a lot of responsibility to keep the good energy going.
Lil Durk
There’s nothing simple when you’re in this ‘Good Place.’
D’Arcy Carden
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present.
Blake Lively
Only the young die good.
Oliver Herford
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
Lou Holtz
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. Forster
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
Swami Vivekananda
There’s a reason good fabrics have a cost. They’re done with good quality to last.
Zac Posen
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don’t have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
Hans Rosling
The good old days are now.
Tom Clancy
I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.
Ranbir Kapoor
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
I’m not a good dancer, but I try. I don’t really have the moves.
Jacob Dalton
The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
Jeff Bezos
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Aldous Huxley
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.
Steven Wright
All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
Tupac Shakur
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
Temple Grandin
It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.
Maria Sharapova
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
Lionel Messi
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
Joel Kinnaman
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
Hunter S. Thompson
No man is good enough to be another’s master.
William Morris
You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
George Carlin
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.
Margaret Walker
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A good captain is great only if he has a great team.
S. Sreesanth
Be not simply good – be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
Ted Nelson
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.
Mitch Hedberg
I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
Jay Sean
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
Ben Carson
We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, ‘Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?’
Margaret Trudeau
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
Howard Aiken
If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
Arthur Ashe
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whate

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse
Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Tim Allen
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef, there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t.
Gerard Depardieu
Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It’s not black and white.
Sarah Jeffery
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‘Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.’
Jim Carrey
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.
Richard Whately
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.
Jochen Zeitz
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving – and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it – and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Robert Collier