974 private quotes tagged good

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” — Ansel Adams

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“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.” — Dalai Lama

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“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” — Walt Whitman

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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius

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“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain

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“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” — Thomas Paine

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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty d--n good.” — Woody Allen

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“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” — Wayne Gretzky

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“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.” — Will Rogers

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“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'” — Steven Wright

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“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.” — Will Rogers

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“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The best is the enemy of the good.” — Voltaire

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“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” — Yogi Berra

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“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.” — Mark Twain

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“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole d--n life and one is as good as the other.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde

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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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