974 private quotes tagged good

“A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” — Hugh Sidey

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“I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.” — Yannick Noah

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“The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” — Jim Rohn

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“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.” — Kurt Cobain

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“It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.” — Jim Morrison

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“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.” — David Rockefeller

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“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.” — Scott Alexander

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“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.” — William E. Simon

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“A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.” — Joel Osteen

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“If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.” — Johnny Depp

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“Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.” — Vince Lombardi

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“There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?” — Marilyn Monroe

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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward

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“Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.” — Jim Rohn

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“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.” — Alan Cohen

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“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” — J. P. Morgan

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“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” — Jim Rohn

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“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.” — Joan Rivers

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“What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?” — Marilyn Monroe

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“The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.” — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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