A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.”
“A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.”
“A good-bye is a good-bye whether it's a long one or not.”
Source: The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
“A good calculator does not need artificial aids.”
“A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.”
“A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on.”
“A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.”
“A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.”
“A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!”
“A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.”
Source: Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life
“A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.”
“A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.”
“A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.”
“A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.”
“A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.”
“A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.”
“A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.”
“A good character is the best tombstone.”
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
Source: John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people
“A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.”
“A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors-the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.”
“A good character may not make us happy, but it does make us worthy of happiness (XXV 1174). He also maintains that people of character have an inner worth, while people of talent have a market value (XXV 1174), and emphasizes that this worth is created by the person himself. Most importantly, however, he claims that character ‘consists in the basic characteristic [GrundAnlage] of the will’ (XXV 1174).”
Source: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary
“A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.”
“A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.”
“A good character will be recognized by a good
character.
Petra Hermans
September 8, 2016”
“A good cheer is a good comfort.”
“A good cheer is the best cure.”
“A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.”
“A good children’s book draws a child into the world of make-believe and gives flight to their developing imagination.”
“A good children's book is a conversation children and their parents share and talk about”
“A good children's book is conversation kids and parents share and talk about”
“A good children's book is conversation kids and their parents share and talk about.”
“A good children's book teaches the uses of words, the joy of playing with language. Above all, it helps children learn not to be frightened of books. Once they get through a book and enjoy it, they realize that books are something they can cope with. If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.”
Source: Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation.
“A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.”
Source: The Marriage Ring: Or How to Make Home Happy
“A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.”
“A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.”
“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.”
“A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party in power deserved his vote.”
Source: The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel
“A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.”
“A good city is like a good party. People don't want to leave early.”
“A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.”
“A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.”
Source: Harvest song: collected essays and stories
“A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.”
“A good coach can be a caring parent, a wise teacher, an exemplary pastor, a passionate friend or a devoted mentor. Keep in touch with all of them especially at the time they are needed.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.”
“A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.”
“A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.”
Source: There's Only One Way to Win: Lessons from a Legend: Modern Success Principles from an Old-School Coach
“A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.”
“A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.”