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Be Good Quotes - Page 4

If you can’t be good, be colorful.

If you can’t be good, be colorful.

Pete Conrad
Be Good, Ifs, Colorful

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Marcus Aurelius
Be Good
Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared

Leila Aboulela
Be Good, Wanted, Prepared
Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

There is a way to be good again.

Khaled Hosseini
Way, Be Good
Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.90, A&C Black

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Harry S. Truman
Greatness, Be Good, Uninterested

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Edith Sitwell
Integrity, Ethics, Be Good

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

Colman McCarthy
Easy, Results, Be Good

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

Weegee
Photographer, Perfectionist, Be Good

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Be Good, Whole
Vamanananda (Swami.), Arun Kumar Sinha, Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Eternal Platform”

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

Richard Pryor
Insanity, Be Good

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Kurt Vonnegut
Be Good, Gods Will, Fooled
Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.155, Random House

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

Josh Lieb
Pay, Talent, Be Good
Josh Lieb (2015). “Ratscalibur”, p.162, Penguin

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

Debbie Reynolds
Sids, Spontaneous, Be Good
Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

Bruno Bettelheim
Children, Want, Be Good
Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.

Bill Murray
Be Good, Ifs, Knows

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

B. C. Forbes
Goodness, Easier, Be Good

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Seneca the Younger
Law, Innocence, Be Good
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, De Ira, II. 27, 1922.

Do good, be good and see good. Do everything with love.

Sathya Sai Baba
Be Good
Source: souljourns.net

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

Sade Adu
Years, Albums, Be Good

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

Robert Plant
World, Flash, Be Good
"The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

Randy Pausch
Last Lecture, Be Good, Valuable
YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde
Country, Temptation, Be Good
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 19

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Mary Astell
Heart, Men, Be Good
Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.47, Cambridge University Press

Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".

Larry Page
People, Evil, Be Good

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Matter, Lows, Be Good
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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