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Good Quotes

Quotes on what it means to be good.

This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

Quotes by Christopher Isherwood

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

Quotes by Christoph Waltz

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Quotes by Christoph Waltz

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

Quotes by Christopher Buckley

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

Quotes by Christopher Darden

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have...

Quotes by Christopher Dawson

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Quotes by Christopher Dawson

In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number...

Quotes by Christine Lagarde

Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I...

Quotes by Christine Lagarde

I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's excess in the financial market, whether it's excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to...

Quotes by Christine Lagarde

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Quotes by Christine Lahti

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Quotes by Christine Lahti

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

Quotes by Christine Lahti

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

Quotes by Christine Lavin

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice...

Quotes by Christine Pelosi

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are collected under "Good"?
A witty, varied set — from a scientist's dry observation that "mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions," to a wry line about intellectual work requiring "a certain self-importance," to baseball being good to someone only after they quit trying to play it.
Are these quotes meant to be funny or serious?
A bit of both — several have a dry, self-aware humor to them, like the baseball line, while others are more genuinely thoughtful, like the reflection on defining "good" in a moral sense.
Is there a version of this page focused on luck?
Yes, for quotes specifically about fortune and luck, see Good Luck.
What if I want something upbeat rather than witty?
Try Good Vibes or Good Times for a lighter, feel-good tone.
Is there a page about living a good life specifically?
Yes — Good Life covers that theme in more depth.

The tone ranges from academic to lighthearted, showing how flexible a simple word like 'good' can be across contexts. Continue with Good Life Quotes or Good Vibes Quotes.