974 private quotes tagged good

“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” — Andy Warhol

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“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” — Paul Hawken

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“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.” — Charles de Lint

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“Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.” — Joel Osteen

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“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.” — Richard Cecil

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“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.” — Saint Augustine

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“It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.” — Phyllis Diller

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“A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.” — John C. Maxwell

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“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” — Keith Sweat

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“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” — Grenville Kleiser

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“I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.” — Zig Ziglar

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“Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.” — Eminem

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“Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.” — Kid Rock

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“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.” — Jerome K. Jerome

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“There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” — Flannery O'Connor

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“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” — William Wordsworth

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“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” — Margaret Mitchell

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“In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.” — Peter Tosh

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“My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.” — Eric Cantona

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“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.” — James Truslow Adams

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“I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.” — Amy Grant

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