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Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
- Done
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
- Never
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
- Great
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
- Man
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
- Drive
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I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves you. If you learn to drive a car, and you learn the right way if there is ever a right way. You learn the good aspects, you learn to drive properly. And that never leaves you.
- Like
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I don't like watching television too much; it tires me out for some reason. But I saw a fair bit of 'Game of Thrones' because it was so good. I mostly watched episodes that I wasn't in.
- Money
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The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot. Any or all of those things. But if the writing is really appalling, then the money had better be really good. Sometimes you say yes to something you wouldn't always do because you need the money.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, 'Hello, Gielgud here, any work?' Good on him. We've got to keep working. If we retire, there'll be nobody to play the old wrinklies, and that would be a dreadful shame.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020