Good
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better — because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature — if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty — but mostly suffering!
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.
Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
I know my soul is beautiful; I know I'm a good person. And that will never change for me.
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
