100+ Inspiring Good Person Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."

- Anne Frank

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Sciencelessness and senselessness are all okay, as long as they don't lead to heartlessness. Being good people is what being human is about, it has nothing to do with either faith or facts. Facts may help life, faith may help life, but none of it makes a person good on their own, unless the person genuinely has an active spirit of goodwill. It's the person that makes science good, it's the person that makes faith good, not the other way around. A good scientist does good with their science, a good preacher does good with their faith. It all depends on the person - it depends on the person's heart, not on the science or on the faith. Marie Curie was a scientist, but what makes her a great scientist is not her dedication to science, which is quite common in many scientists, but her indomitable and rather radical drive to use science to serve humankind, so much so that instead of monetizing on her hard-fought discovery of radium, she gave it away – she never filed a patent for it that is. So to those aiming to be scientists, I say, if you are brilliant in head but cold at heart, you'd make an average scientist, but if there is warmth in your heart, you'd make a great scientist, even if you are average in head. 'Cause, that my friend, is what science is about. That is what intellect is about. And the same applies to every single tool with the potential for good. Your field of work doesn't make you a good person, if you are a good person, you make that field a good field."

- Abhijit Naskar

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

- Buddha

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about."

- Rob Reiner

"Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete."

- Derek Jeter

"I want to be a good person. I don't want to fail. I want to learn from my mistakes, rid myself of distractions, and run into the arms of Jesus. Most of the time, however, I feel like I am running away from Jesus into the arms of my own clutteredness."

- Mike Yaconelli

"I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods, but... that doesn't mean I won't treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good person to the people around me."

- Erica Durance

"As an adult, I've always tried to be a good person my whole life, so I've made good friends, and I've always built great relationships and been friendly with people. I always think what you do to others will come to you, so that's how I treat people."

- Roman Reigns

"I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views."

- Ishmael Beah

"A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful."

- Miranda Kerr

"I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field."

- Bryce Harper

"Strength and intelligence without empathy wouldn’t make you a good person, let alone a good leader."

- Picazo Basha

"During trial, the jury was forced to pick; is he wholesome or monstrous. But I never questioned that any of what they said about him was true. In fact I need you to know it was all true. The friendly guy who helps you move and assists senior citizens in the pool is the same guy who assaulted me. One person can be capable of both. Society often fails to wrap its head around the fact that these truths often coexist, they are not mutually exclusive. Bad qualities can hide inside a good person. That’s the terrifying part."

- Chanel Miller

"Are you Muslim? I do not care! Are you Christian I do not care! Are you a Buddhist or a Jew? I don't care! Are you a good person, what I want to hear, what I want to see in you, that's what I'm looking for in you!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Don't stop being a good person because of bad people, because you're not being good for the bad in the world but to uphold the good in it."

- Isabella Poretsis

"I'm not a nice person. I'm a good person. There's a difference. Nice is all about being agreeable and easygoing. Good? That's about doing what's right, even when it's tough, even when it's not what people want to hear. Nice is saying yes to keep the peace. Good is saying no when it matters. So, if you're looking for someone to sugarcoat things, I'm not your person. But if you want someone who's got integrity and stands by their principles, I'm your go-to."

- Life is Positive

"Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are."

- Harold S. Kushner

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."

- Princess Diana

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

- Scott Adams

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

- Barbara De Angelis

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

- Eric Hoffer

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Success to me is being a good person, treating people well."

- David LaChapelle

"At the end of the day, if you feel like you're a good person, and your intentions are good, then that's all that matters."

- Madison Beer

"For me, life is about experience and being a good person."

- Chris Hemsworth

"Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction."

- Antonin Scalia

"I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be."

- David Tennant

"Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love."

- Doja Cat

"I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others."

- Elle Macpherson

"We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it's also even more important to be a good person, so that's what I learned."

- Aly Raisman

"It's very difficult to continue to believe in yourself and that you're a good person when the people who know you best don't."

- Tara Westover

"People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture."

- Max Lucado

"As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters."

- Gisele Bundchen

"When everything is stripped away in life, everybody is a human being that has problems, that has issues, has flaws, that isn't perfect. It doesn't make a difference what your sex is, what your sexual preference is, what your race is or what your background is. If you're a good person, you're OK in my book."

- Matt Hardy

"My advice on firing is simple: Treat that person the same way you'd want to be treated if you were in that situation. They're still a good person, just not the right fit. So how do you help them move on in a productive way that allows them to maintain their dignity?"

- Mary Barra

"I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life."

- Miranda Kerr

"I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life."

- Carrie Underwood

"If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world."

- Aaron Paul

"I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail."

- Julian Casablancas

"Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve."

- Park Bo-gum

"What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that."

- Erykah Badu

"No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing to other artists. But what's most important is that you have to be a good person and care about others and carry yourself well."

- Tones and I

"A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?"

- Alexis Stewart

"Be a good person. The best person you can be. That's what matters."

- Kane Brown

"I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person."

- Pink

"I believe in love, children and being a good person."

- Leighton Meester

"Beyond remembering me as a good goalkeeper or a bad goalkeeper, I just hope that people remember me for being a good person."

- Iker Casillas

"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person."

- Robert Mapplethorpe

"I want to marry a good person, not his profession. If the person is good, the profession doesn't matter. I hold honesty, simplicity, and genuineness above everything."

- Jennifer Winget

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

"I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- W.P. Kinsella

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

- William Hazlitt

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

- Robert Byrne

"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

"There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."

- Rainbow Rowell

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle."

- Charles Glassman

"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees."

- Amelia Earhart

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change."

- Bob Kerrey

"Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."

- John Ruskin

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey."

- Sarah Fielding

"I do believe that when you are a good person, good things will happen to you."

- Angela Yee

"Kindness is like snow- It beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tzu

"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

- Henry James

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Ariana Huffington

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God."

- Suzy Kassem

"It’s not about being good. It’s about releasing good."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Because that's what kindness is. It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can."

- Andrew Iskander

"Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life."

- Jackie Chan

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"He that does good to another does good mainly, or even only, for himself."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"What does it mean, bad things happen to good people? I wonder. What does one have to do to be crowned a good person? What does it take to be considered a bad one? Who decides what is good and what is bad? Who makes that judgement? Who has that right?"

- Arti Manani

"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"Life has got those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much."

- Shannon L. Alder

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."

- Publilius Syrus

"I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them."

- John Bradshaw

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person."

- Kali Uchis

"When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that."

- Nick Saban

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

- Henry Van Dyke

"In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children."

- Greg Graffin

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

"I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person."

- Peaches Geldof

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no matter what you look like."

- Anonymous

"Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome."

- Amelia Barr

"Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused."

- Tommy Lee Jones

"I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way."

- Lady Gaga

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?"

- Candace Cameron Bure

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person."

- Aaliyah

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

- Charles Kettering

"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffet

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

- Danny Boyle

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Khalil Gibran

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time."

- Brad Goreski

"I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn."

- Kid Rock

"I like to think of myself as a genuinely good person."

- Stephen Miller

"I have often wondered which would be better; being a good American or being a good person? The nationality doesn't matter because it could be any country, but are they exclusive or inclusive?"

- Anthony T. Hincks

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are."

- Brian May

"I wanted to be bad because the good guys were lying, cheating and swearing. Let me be bad by being good and I became a bad guy by being a good person."

- Bob Backlund

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."

- John B. S. Haldane

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"The irony of being a good person is that you understand a bad person very well."

- Pradip Bendkule

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart. Qualities such as ‘nice, honest, kind, happy, relaxed, sincere, innocent’ are frowned upon as weaknesses. Yet these values are the essence of a good person. Unfortunately, if you don’t keep the balance, they can be lost like sand through your fingers."

- Fennel Hudson

"Fenris was a good man and maybe the weakness of being good was that evil didn't occur to you."

- T. Kingfisher

"He understood how the world worked—bad things happened to good people, bad people died happy in their beds. It happened every day. So why bother being good? The word itself was attached to a series of behaviors that was, at best, an abstraction. A person profited nothing from being good."

- Nick Cutter

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"Some people are kept righteous by their not being courageous."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"There's no such thing as a bad person; Just look at yourself, for example."

- pfano percy rathogwa

"A bad system will beat a good person every time."

- W. Edwards Deming

"I just disagree so much with the way the Catholic Church says things like, 'If you're not a good person, you'll die and go to Hell; there's a purgatory there...' If I was talking with a Holy Ghost, it would scare the living Hell out of me."

- Ronnie James Dio

"I won't ever say I'm a good person. I don't want to be. I like who I am - and I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose me. Because it felt like that's what happened to all of them. They'd lost themselves to their monsters."

- Rebecca Schaeffer

"I am not a good person. But I am a person. I make my own choices."

- Rebecca Schaeffer

"You're a better person than I'll ever be." "It's all about who you ask."

- Kayla Krantz

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"

- Kate Summers

"Why does Joe Normie think it’s a litmus test for morality if one returns one’s shopping cart? Big-box stores put out of business local retailers, they automated their systems to reduce employees, and they got customers to be their own cashiers without getting paid for their labor, and yet to prove I’m a good person, I’m supposed to do more unpaid work for them to streamline their operation?"

- Jarod Kintz

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"A year from now you will wish you had started today."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."