Good Quotes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I'm doing. It's not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it's just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it's hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

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.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

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.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

The best is the enemy of the good.