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Be Good Quotes - Page 2

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

"Learning from the Future : Competitive Foresight Scenarios". Book by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall, p. 332, 1998.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Naomi Shihab Nye (2008). “Habibi”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

"Huff Post Exclusive Music Download" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.111, e-artnow

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.285

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Bertolt Brecht (1960). “Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle, translated by J. and T. Stern, with W.H. Auden. The threepenny opera, translated by D.I. Vesey and E. Bentley. The trial of Lucullus, translated by H.R. Hays. The life of Galileo, translated by D.I. Vesey”

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

"It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be". Book by Paul Arden, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2003.

Every time I get scared or feel like I'm not going to be good enough at something, I say that mantra to myself. "Pretend you're good at it."

"Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it.

"The Saturday interview: Jean Shrimpton". Interview With Alex Wade, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.