Best Good Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.”

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”

“Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.”

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.”

“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”

“I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'”

“I like to help women to spend not a lot of money - to feel powerful, elegant, glamorous, to feel good about themselves.”

“In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.”

“Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.”

“Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.”

“I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.”

“He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.”

“You don't have to live up to anyone else's standards, you don't have to look like anyone else, you don't have to compare yourself to anyone else. You being you is enough, and you putting your positivity and good vibes out into the world, once you get to that point absolutely everything will fall into place.”

“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”

“Less is only more where more is no good.”

“Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.”

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

“Every 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 is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”

“My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.”

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

“I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.”

“If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.”

“Because you know what happens when you say 'hello' or 'good morning?' You make a connection. And isn't that what being human is all about?”

“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.”

“We cannot make good news out of bad practice.”

“Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.”

“Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.”

“Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.”

“Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.”

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.”

“That's cricket. Some days are good, some are bad. No one is going to be amazing all the time. Sometimes I feel it's not a fair world - really and truly.”

“Have a very good reason for everything you do.”

“I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.”

“Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.”

“Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.”

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.”

“The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.”

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”

“The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.”

“Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.”

“I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.”

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”

“Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.”

“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”

“There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.”

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.”

“What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!”

“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”

“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”

“Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.”

“My fans have made all my career moments special for me. They are the ones that have gotten me through every single thing - good times and bad, they are who I go to and lean on. I am very thankful for that.”

“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

“Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”

“I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”

“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.”

“Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.”

“I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.”

“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.”

“If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.”

“Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.”

“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”

“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”

“What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.”

“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.”

“They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.”

“Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.”

“You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.”

“Be not simply good - be good for something.”

“Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.”

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”

“What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.”

“Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.”

“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”

“If you don't look good, we don't look good.”

“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.”

“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”

“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”

“I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.”

“Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.”

“Fun is good.”

“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

“A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.”

“I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.”