Being A Good Person Quotes

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A good person can make another person good;
it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society;
other persons will also be good.
- Bhumibol Adulyadej

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies.
I just believe in being a good person.
- Robert Mapplethorpe

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person,
you never said anything mean about anybody.
- Carly Simon

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.
When I'm serene, when I'm a good person,
when I've been considerate of others.
- Elle Macpherson

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person
long before I ever knew what basketball was.
And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
- Julius Erving

I found the right man, got married,
and just had to keep not reinventing myself,
just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.
- Lisa Kudrow

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
- Francis Herbert Hedge

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health,
or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
- John B. S. Haldane

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person,
but the question you should be asking is,
am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
- Candace Cameron

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
- Edvard Munch

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.
- Connie Willis

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.
- Bill Kurtis

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
- Robert H. Schuller

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.
- Paula Danziger

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
- Thomas Aquinas

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
- Quincy Jones

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
- Will Carleton

So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.
- Kristin Davis

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.
- David Gest

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
- Ann Landers

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
- Pat Brown

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.
- Reese Witherspoon

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
- Margaret Anderson

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
- Colin Quinn

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.
- Brittany Snow

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
- Edvard Munch

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- Jane Austen

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.
- Michael Patrick Jann

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
- Alice Walker

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
- Harpo Marx

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
- Irvin S. Cobb

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
- Elias Canetti

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
- Bobby Vinton

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.
- Clarence Thomas

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
- Stevie Nicks

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
- Charles E. Wilson

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.
- Beverley Mitchell

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.
- Robert Evans

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
- David Schwimmer

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
- Larry David

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
- Lady Bird Johnson

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
- Yakov Smirnoff

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.
- Geraldine Ferraro

I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can.
- Larry Holmes

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
- Islom Karimov

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.
- Brian McBride

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
- James Russell Lowell

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.
- Robert B. Laughlin

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
- Sidney Poitier

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.
- Phil Foglio

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.
- Courtney Love

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
- Emo Philips

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
- Bo Bennett

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
- Andy Warhol

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
- Nile Rodgers

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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