Good quotes

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” Theodore Roosevelt

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.” Henry Rollins

“I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.” Henry Rollins

“I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.” Henry Rollins

“But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.” Henry Rollins

“I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.” Henry Rollins

“Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.” Henry Rollins

“I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.” Henry Rollins

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.” Bill Gates

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” Milton Friedman

“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.” Milton Friedman

“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.” Milton Friedman

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank

“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

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.” Anne Frank

“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

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” Anne Frank

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank

“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.” Anne Frank

“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank

“Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.” Wayne Dyer

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

“Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.” Princess Diana

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.” Richard Dawkins

“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” Charles Darwin

“Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.” James Dean

“If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.” Ellen DeGeneres