Police and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush LimbaughI intend to live forever. So far so good.
Steven WrightShow me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.
Vince LombardiThe very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George WashingtonI write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
P. J. O'RourkeA good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas FullerBad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean NathanThe good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better
John DeweyMy eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
John WoodenIf one has a good disposition what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame what is the value of other ornamentation?
ChanakyaThe greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles LambNature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis StevensonOne good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas PaineThe best is the enemy of the good.
VoltaireI was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
Ron WhiteThose who are destitute of learning penance knowledge good disposition virtue and benevolence are brutes wandering the earth in the form of men. They are burdensome to the earth.
ChanakyaIf you have a particular faith or religion that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai LamaOnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. ForsterI think making a good film shot is joyful.
William ShatnerGood character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
HeraclitusConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton FriedmanI've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
Hillary ClintonThere is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell LowellInstead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did why in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will RogersInclusive good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
Desmond TutuFailure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George EliotIf it is good and will harm no one go ahead. If it is not good put it aside. If not sure do nothing until sure.
Sai BabaYou know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
W. Somerset MaughamThere is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMy body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noel CowardBe Silent yourself that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation wherever you happen to be. The less you talk the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.
Sai BabaThere are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
AeschylusMy kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
William ShatnerAtomic energy might be as good as our present day explosives, but is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous.
Winston ChurchillWhat does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us time and again?
Mitt RomneyA man must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside and encounter such a day as this for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.
Jane AustenWhat this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose BierceThere's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less and because numbness encourages laziness you do fewer things good or bad and the world's probably a better place for it.
Doug CouplandThat good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI do this real moron thing it's called thinking and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to form my own opionions.
George CarlinThey did a good job defensively. They were just crowding me and trapping me every time I came off a pick-and-roll or when I was in transition. We were playing so well as a team. Everybody was contributing. We had a nice lead. There was really no reason for me to push it or force shots.
Kobe BryantMarriage is a very good thing but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset MaughamFreedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand RussellThere is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich NietzscheYou say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich NietzscheThe society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. GardnerLet us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us, and endeavor to excel them by avoiding what is faulty and imitating what is excellent in them.
PlutarchEvery good citizen makes his country's honor his own and cherishes it, not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense, and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Andrew JacksonNo one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare PaveseWhatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim RohnYou want to come out here and play good basketball. The fans here know their basketball and want to see good basketball.
Kobe BryantMy dad was good with actions.
William ShatnerIn life we shall find many men that are great and some that are good but very few men that are both great and good.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand a gratuitous letter so to speak which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
Henry MillerLook within. Within is the fountain of good and it will ever bubble up if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus AureliusThere is much good luck in the world but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children playing or quarrelling on the line.
E. M. ForsterA man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
ChanakyaWe're more than good. It's beyond comprehension. That's my guy. We go out on the road. After games we sit and talk. We review film on the plane. That's why it bothers me when somebody says something like that.
Kobe BryantThe main foundations of every state new states as well as ancient or composite ones are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms and where there are good arms good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo MachiavelliWe must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo PicassoYou must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. NixonThere is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.
Deepak ChopraTo make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
PlutarchI know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good you have to practice practice practice. If you don't love something then don't do it.
Ray BradburyThis is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve JobsI never mind contorting myself for a good cause.
Christina AguileraNothing good ever comes of violence.
Martin LutherDemocracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. MenckenA peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
Pope John XXIIIReal firmness is good for anything, strut is good for nothing.
Alexander HamiltonConsideration for others is the basic of a good life a good society.
ConfuciusWhat do we lose by another Sai Baba
You're only as good as your last haircut.
Fran LebowitzA stale article if you dip it in a good warm sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel HawthorneI believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas JeffersonA general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthurWe didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things by producing goods we could sell.
Barack ObamaIt doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Ronald ReaganI remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.
Joseph AddisonMaking money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy WarholThe only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest HemingwayGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La RochefoucauldClever men are good but they are not the best.
Thomas CarlyleA wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas JeffersonA good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something.
Wilson MiznerI have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. BushGood things happen to those who hustle.
Anais NinA man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard ShawDrawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador DaliIf 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 VivekanandaIt feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um it's kinda interesting coming back and y'know seeing the lockers with all the signs the handmade signs so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.
Taylor SwiftWhat you see but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas CarlyleDon't gamble, take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up don't buy it.
Will RogersWe are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William JamesDon'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 RiversMaking good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Peter DruckerWar never takes a wicked man by chance the good man always.
SophoclesNothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history, therefore we must be saved by faith.
Reinhold NiebuhrFor beautiful eyes look for the good in others, for beautiful lips speak only words of kindness, and for poise walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey HepburnWhen I'm good I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae WestI have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
Rodney DangerfieldThose who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand RussellThe momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis BaconA man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Henry Ward BeecherSarcasm I now see to be in general the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas CarlyleIt was perhaps one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
Jane AustenIn spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion misery and death.
Anne FrankI want to look good when people see me.
Christina AguileraWhen bad men combine the good must associate, else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund BurkeThe desire of talking of ourselves and showing those faults we do not mind having seen makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA good deed never goes unpunished.
Gore VidalThere is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H. L. MenckenShe belongs to a race of delightful women who never do any harm whom everybody calls good and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Gilbert ParkerIf the opposition disarms well and good. If it refuses to disarm we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph StalinGood artists copy great artists steal.
Pablo PicassoIt is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. MenckenA good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated something is wrong.
Orson WellesIf you're running for president you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.
Paul RyanNature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole FranceA man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel JohnsonLogic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
E. M. ForsterThe good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
Helen HayesSeek ye first the good things of the mind and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis BaconWe were better ... That's good going into the rest day: regroup and get ready for the big climbs.
Lance ArmstrongWhen I prayed for success I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
Mason CooleyAs individuals people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve JobsThe measure of choosing well is whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Charles LambSo it was a good field but the most important thing was that the team came up with a very difficult plan for me. Lance helped me a lot and having an idol a mentor like that to come up with a plan and for me to put the icing on the cake was a huge accomplishment. It taught me that if I believe in myself I can push my own limits. I hope to achieve that here next year even more and hopefully arrive at the top eventually.
Lance ArmstrongWe are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George WashingtonOne has to be a lowbrow a bit of a murderer to be a politician ready and willing to see people sacrificed slaughtered for the sake of an idea whether a good one or a bad one.
Henry MillerThere is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect from event to event is often carried on by secret steps which our foresight cannot divine and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good, and good may bring forth evil both equally unexpected.
Joseph AddisonThe reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are served by the same cable loop and the cable loop was affected by equipment failures. But the cable itself is in good working order.
John DeweyI can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
Dolly PartonHow is individual transformation to be achieved? There are some bad habits among individuals such as smoking drinking liquor meat eating and gambling. These bad habits not only degrade the individuals but also inflict hardships on their families. These bad habits have to be given up for the individual to manifest his inherent goodness.
Sai BabaTalking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well, and yet words are not deeds.
William ShakespeareI'm not happy all the time and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
Dolly PartonIt is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George OrwellThe power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Milton FriedmanGiving a good performance giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
Henry RollinsRiches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles LambThe man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Mason CooleyIf we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.
Saint AugustineDon't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile grin. If you can't grin keep out of the way till you can.
Winston ChurchillI personally think it would be better if the NYSE remained as a neutral not-for-big-profit institution. The exchange has done a very good job over the centuries. It's one of the most important institutions in the world. The enemy of investment is activity.... I know the American investor will not be better off if volume doubles on the NYSE and I know the NYSE will be trying to figure out how to do that if it is trying to maximize its own earnings per share. GM or IBM will not earn more money if their stock turns over more actively but a for-profit NYSE will.
Warren BuffettOn the whole human beings want to be good but not too good and not quite all the time.
George OrwellBut I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
Henry Rollins