Do What Is Good Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Do What Is Good
Do What Is Good Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Do What Is Good quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
— Origen
You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.
— Benjamin Franklin
What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?
You focus on the really good ones! — Storm Princeholm
You focus on the really good ones! — Storm Princeholm
We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
— Maria Irene Fornes
Well I think not knowing is a good thing,
Knowing that I don't know, even better,
But only when I'm willing to do something about it... — Me
Knowing that I don't know, even better,
But only when I'm willing to do something about it... — Me
Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.
— Harbhajan Singh
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
— Philip Pullman
It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.
— Anders Dahlvig
The point is not to get hung up on being what you're supposed to be. If you can, it's good to do what pleases you.
— Robert B. Parker
Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.
— Michael Josephson
Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.
— Steve Guttenberg
It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.
— Jeffrey Fry
Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
— Winston S. Churchill
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.
— James Frey
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
— George Bernard Shaw
One doesn't love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object.
— Paulo Coelho
I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes
which is what I always try to do in every movie
then I feel like I'm doing my job. — Nicolas Cage
which is what I always try to do in every movie
then I feel like I'm doing my job. — Nicolas Cage
what good is freedom if we can't do what we want?
— Brian K. Vaughan
What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it.
— Alice Munro
...and this is what grandmothers and mother-in-law and mothers do. They fight for the good.
— Fredrik Backman
This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
— Inbee Park
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
— Jeffrey Veen
What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.
— Kate Mosse
If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
— Earl Nightingale
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
We mustn't live like those with "little faith" who compromise for the sake of food and clothing. What we do matters. And not every job is a good job.
— Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil, or it's all been done before? Make good art.
— Neil Gaiman
What I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.
— Helmut Newton
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
— Ted Nelson
What I seek to do is to establish the facts as I see them, or as I understand them, and to engage in constructive dialogue to get good outcomes.
— Cory Bernardi
The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.
— Kevin Eubanks
Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
— Pythagoras
I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.
— Scott Rolen
Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.
— Thomas Merton
Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.
— Morgan Brittany
In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.
— Henry Ford II
Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
— Jello Biafra
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.
— S.I. Hayakawa
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
— E. M. Forster
My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.
— Steve Jobs
It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.
— Marilynne Robinson
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
— Carl Zuckmayer
Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.
— Rene Descartes
Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.
— Curtis Mayfield
What feels good is often the wrong thing to do.
— William Eckhardt
Some of my subjects do not know what is good for them,
— Alison Weir
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.
— Chris Rock
The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.
— Richard Petty
You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that ...
— Geneen Roth
So the good news is, I know exactly what I want."
"You do?" I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbuck's. — Caroline Kepnes
"You do?" I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbuck's. — Caroline Kepnes
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
— James C. Humes
Life is shitty sometimes, Rachel. But what good does it do to run away from everything because you're afraid of something bad happening?
— Susan Bishop Crispell
Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?
— Matt Stone
You're so good at what you do, keep pushing, success is on the table at all times!
— Sereda Aleta Dailey
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
— Brian Eno
If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
— John Lubbock
I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.
— Riccardo Tisci
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.
— James S.A. Corey
I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Even mosochists need lovers. What would a girl like me do without someone like you? Perhaps everyone is good for someone.
— R.K. Lilley
In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You're a good liar."
He gritted his teeth and held my gaze, Sometimes that's what's required to do what is right in Patrus. — Bella Forrest
He gritted his teeth and held my gaze, Sometimes that's what's required to do what is right in Patrus. — Bella Forrest
My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
— Martin Freeman
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.
— Edward Burns
It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good.
— Gil Fronsdal
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
— Cyril Connolly
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.
— Glenne Headly
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
— George MacDonald
Sometimes being a good friend is about saying no, about trying to do what's best for your friend regardless of what they say.
— Gitty Daneshvari
But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.
— John Dos Passos
When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.
— Will Gluck
We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.
— Charlie LeDuff
Three great actions:
To do what is right,
To love mercy, and
To walk humbly with Yahweh. — Lailah Gifty Akita
To do what is right,
To love mercy, and
To walk humbly with Yahweh. — Lailah Gifty Akita
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
— Harry Reasoner
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
One may have an abundance of faith in God, but do we trust Him when we don't understand? What good is faith without trust?
— Danny L. Deaube
You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
— Alexandra Bracken
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am here for a reason. This is no haphazard mistake. What good can I do with what I have?
— Lisa Tawn Bergren
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
— C.S. Lewis
And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.
— L. Ron Hubbard
A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have.
— Zig Ziglar
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
— David Hockney
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.
— Earl Felton
I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.
— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I know what my strengths are and what theirs are and what the three of us do is play for the good of the team.
— Luis Suarez