Quotes About Good

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?

A power that can't be used for good? Like a bad girl power? I wouldn't mind being clairvoyant, but I wouldn't want it if I couldn't use it for good. Peace and love, man. Peace and love.

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.

The universe is limitless and so are you. There is a limitless supply of good that the universe wants to show you. Step out of the way and let it be!

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist

I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.