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Parents need to be lucky to be good in parenting; children have to be lucky to have great parents! — Amit Chatterjee

It's not a problem to be great and do good things. — Anthony Hemingway

Anyone who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. — Niccolo Machiavelli

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great. — Drew Brees

It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. — Michael Ignatieff

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions. — Primo Angeli

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good. — Ben Folds

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing. — Cesare Pavese

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. — Anatole Broyard

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be. — Swami Vivekananda

I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be. — Michael Owen

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. — John Barrymore

We are always in a hurry to be happy ... ; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. — Alexandre Dumas

He had always beaten me. It feels good to get a little revenge. I knew I just had to keep pushing, and it just feels great to be on top. — Richard Winger

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best. — Donald Hall

You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. — Stewart Copeland

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Coolidge

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently. — Richard Avedon

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own. — Ben Jonson

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular. — John Denver

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. — Mary Astell

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover. — William Wordsworth

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm ... — Charles Kingsley

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. — Karen Thompson Walker

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? — Jimmy Johnson

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. — A.J. Ayer

I'm not here to be good. I'm here to be great, — Luke Rockhold

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people. — Richard Branson

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan. — Julian Schnabel

Talon thought kissing Flit to shut him up might be a good idea.
He was wrong.
It was a fucking great idea. — Agatha Bird

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be
a man. — Edward Abbey

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all. — Steve McCurry

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something. — Gene Weingarten

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well. — Henry Ward Beecher

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it. — George Horace Lorimer

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so. — Steven Pressfield

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture ... like Van Gogh ... so who's to say what's good and bad? — Frank Gehry

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God. — Spark Matsunaga

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic. — Emma Watson

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you. — Dan Hampton

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.' — Lena Olin

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Artists have to have a good eye. And to be great, I'd recommend having two. — Jarod Kintz

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. — Tom Rath

I could run for Congress. Why not? Good heavens, if Ronald Reagan can be president, I ought to make a great secretary of the treasury. — Sandra Dee

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights. — Paul Azinger

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person — Iker Casillas

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less. — Richard Whately

Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough. — Jon Krakauer

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer. — Karrine Steffans

You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick. — Magic Johnson

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work. — Sarah Jessica Parker

Discontented people are exactly the kind of people that made America so Great. Sometimes it's good to be frustrated; it leads to change. — Bradford Winters

As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great. — Henry D. Taylor

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that. — Gary Oldman

We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. But — Alexandre Dumas

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home. — Jeremy Renner

This is going to be a good day! I believe my dreams are coming to pass. God has great things in store. — Joel Osteen

Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough. — Gurbaksh Chahal

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener. — Richard Branson

If good stuff happened to us until we died it wouldn't be called Life. It would be called Great. — Drew

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself. — Charles Dickens

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. — Gore Vidal

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Responding to the 'great good' within us causes us to be 'great people. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game. — Amar'e Stoudemire

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person. — Tim Duncan

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian. — C.S. Lewis

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them. — Mindy Kaling

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. — Ralph Fiennes

Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small. — Mother Teresa

It's not enough to be good. You have to be great. — Jeff Goins

Good is not enough. You've got to be great. — Simon Cowell

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm. — Barack Obama

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky

You'd be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look — T.D. Jakes

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison. — Charles Handy

A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning. — Andre Maurois

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one. — George Bernard Shaw

Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread. — Matthew Henry

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great. — Kenny Rogers

It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball. — Chris Kraus

Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good. — David B. Haight

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be. — Kristin Davis

I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job. — Chelsea Handler

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters. — John Lasseter

Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni! — James J. Caterino

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast. — Glenn Frey

I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such. — Joel Edgerton

Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money? — James Heywood

Dare to be among the greatest. Even if you did not get the best, you will be above the good. — Israelmore Ayivor

Wanted to be a great warrior and a good mentor more than anything else, but it seemed painfully clear that Tigerclaw was just waiting for him to fail. — Erin Hunter

I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better. — Donald Glover

In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off. — James C. Collins

She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft. — Octavia E. Butler