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Top 140 Good People Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 20, 2020

“We expanded primarily for our people – if you don’t offer more opportunities, you don’t keep good people.”

― A. James Clark

“Uber has a lot of money, and they’ve hired a lot of good people, and they have the capacity to professionalize.”

― Adam Lashinsky

“I want to work with good people and good directors.”

― Aditi Rao Hydari

“When we do something good, people immediately follow it.”

― Allu Arjun

“Working with people who are kind and who are good people really means a lot to me.”

― Ally Brooke

“Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.”

― Amy Bloom

“The technologists and entrepreneurs I know are generally good people. If they were given a choice, ‘Do your job and eliminate normal jobs’ or ‘Do your job and create abundant opportunities,’ they would choose the latter. Most of them would happily even take a small hit to do so. But this isn’t a choice they’re given.”

― Andrew Yang

“I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.”

― Andrew Young

“I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.”

― Bill Parcells

“Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.”

― Bob Riley

“It’s important that I work with good people.”

― Bobby Deol

“I don’t know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that’s where I sit with Donald Trump.”

― Bobby Knight

“I’m formally trained, I don’t know what classically trained really means. I’ve worked with Sanford Meisner. And I’ve worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.”

― Brad Dourif

“MSNBC got some very good people. They’ve got a good-looking set. All They’re first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.”

― Brit Hume

“I think good things happen to good people.”

― Buddy Valastro

“During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire’s First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.”

― Carol Shea-Porter

“I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.”

― Charles Barkley

“It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.”

― Charles Williams

“And I just want to work with good directors and good people.”

― Charlie Hunnam

“I don’t want to be an actress. I want to be doing good work that is well written and has good people in it.”

― Claire Danes

“We’re lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don’t know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they’re all really good people.”

― Cobie Smulders

“I’ve been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.”

― Damian Lewis

“It is vitally important that we implement immigration reform. We need a bill that strengthens our borders and protects this nation, but that also makes it simpler for good people to become Americans.”

― Dave Reichert

“People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesn’t make them good people or bad people.”

― David Zayas

“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.”

― Dennis Prager

“We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.”

― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.”

― Emily Mortimer

“People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.”

― Eric Schmidt

“I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.”

― Ethan Canin

“Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.”

― Evan Bayh

“I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn’t have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.”

― Fat Joe

“Religion has a good place and it has its good people.”

― Garry Marshall

“Good people can disagree.”

― Gavin Newsom

“Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It’s the 5% who get seduced by power.”

― George Hickenlooper

“I’ve always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people.”

― Gillian Flynn

“I don’t expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that’s not in either economy’s interest.”

― Glenn Hubbard

“Surround yourself with good people.”

― Gordie Gronkowski, Jr.

“Even good people are obliged to deceive.”

― Greg LeMond

“Hopefully, I’ll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that’s how it will develop.”

― Gretchen Mol

“I’ve been blessed. I’ve worked with a lot of good people.”

― Harry Dean Stanton

“There’re plenty of good people in football – mostly players and managers.”

― Harry Redknapp

“You don’t learn from good people – they’ve found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: ‘Oh dear, I’m not going to do that.’”

― Helen McCrory

“These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.”

― Henry Hudson

“My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards – but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.”

― Hugh Hefner

“I’m no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can’t possibly make complex characters. I’m bigger than that. I owe too much to too many good people at the Goodman, Arena and Playwrights Horizons.”

― Isaiah Washington

“It’s difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.”

― J. D. Vance

“Most of the good people of my generation… had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.”

― Jack Germond

“WhatsApp has over a billion customers, and they are overwhelmingly good people. But in that billion customers are terrorists and criminals… It’s a huge feature of terrorist tradecraft.”

― James Comey

“I don’t know why we’re not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn’t it?”

― James McAvoy

“If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.”

― James Sinegal

“Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.”

― Jan Karon

“I’m easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I’m there.”

― Jane Curtin

“I’ve done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy – girl – when I was younger and sold things at little fairs when I was younger. I mostly related the role to being a waitress and having to deal with customers. There are good people and some not-so-good people.”

― Jess Weixler

“If I can convince people that good people don’t do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.”

― John Hickenlooper

“I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play.”

― John Hunter

“The ‘7500’ is with Leslie Bibb. It’s a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It’s going to do what ‘Jaws’ did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!”

― Johnathon Schaech

“I’m just thankful I’m surrounded by good people.”

― Jon Pardi

“There’s such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.”

― Josh Lucas

“My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.”

― Joshua Jackson

“Little by little, when I was doing auditions in New York, I discovered I was good. People there were enthusiastic.”

― Juan Diego Florez

“If I get to tell good stories with good people, that’s good enough for me.”

― Judge Reinhold

“All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities – it’s the wrong way round. The others should have the bars.”

― Judy Sheindlin

“My grandmother didn’t live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way – the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.”

― Julian Castro

“I can tell you that good people do bad things.”

― Justin Hartley

“Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.”

― Justin Trudeau

“When I left ‘Coronation Street,’ I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with such a unanimously wonderful company of good people – and I’ve just come to that good bunch again.”

― Katherine Kelly

“I just want to keep doing good projects with good people.”

― Katherine Langford

“The thrill of doing ‘Good People’ is I love those kinds of stories, and I’m good at them, and it’s wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.”

― Kelly Masterson

“It’s more important to represent women as complete, whole, complicated humans as opposed to saintly, perfect women. The point isn’t that they have to be good people. It’s that they have to be people.”

― Kerry Bishe

“I’m not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.”

― Kerry Condon

“The first few films I made didn’t look good at all, and I wasn’t trying to make them look good. People dig ’em because they like the content.”

― Kevin Smith

“There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.”

― Kevin Spacey

“I’m surrounded by good people, and I surround myself with good people.”

― Lil Peep

“Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they’re good people. So if they’re in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.”

― Louis Theroux

“I like seeing good people win.”

― Mac Miller

“In BJP & RSS, there are good people I respect, but some are playing dirty games.”

― Mamata Banerjee

“Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one’s failings.”

― Marco Pierre White

“I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone’s show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine – that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.”

― Margo Price

“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.”

― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“I think the press are good people; I think they’re educated people.”

― Mark McKinnon

“We want to give a voice to all the good people of the South.”

― Matteo Salvini

“I have good people around me, so I always have advice. A lot of people can talk to me, but it’s me, of course, who still has to take that to the track and to perform.”

― Max Verstappen

“The fact is, there’s good people everywhere. That’s what I try and show in my stand-up: good people everywhere. All it takes is one person to mess it up.”

― Maz Jobrani

“You know when you meet somebody and they’re just good people? That’s Andy Samberg.”

― Melissa Fumero

“I’d rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don’t really care for.”

― Michael Biehn

“There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It’s just always been that way.”

― Michael Nesmith

“I’m always eager to work with good people on good content.”

― Mithila Palkar

“Cape Verde produces good people.”

― Mo Ibrahim

“I was always complaining that there weren’t enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.”

― Mona Sutphen

“The thematic bucket of vomit that I’ve been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.”

― Neil Cross

“If you don’t have good people around you, it’s going to be the worst thing for you.”

― Pablo Sandoval

“My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.”

― Pardis Sabeti

“As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.”

― Paul Feig

“The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.”

― Paul Haggis

“I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.”

― Paul Kantner

“I wanna work with good people. I don’t want to work with screaming, yelling directors who’ve got daddy issues. I just don’t want to deal with those guys.”

― Paul Walker

“Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They’re in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They’re better educated than other parts of the country.”

― Peter Agre

“I’ve always been surrounded by good people who rein me back in.”

― Peter Crouch

“We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.”

― Peter Singer

“I’ve been fortunate to be around good people.”

― Phil Knight

“There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.”

― Philip Glenister

“In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

― Plato

“You really don’t find too many good people. You really don’t. Keep them around.”

― Playboi Carti

“Most police officers are good cops and good people.”

― Rand Paul

“Good people never survive on ‘Game of Thrones.’ That’s the problem.”

― Richard Madden

“Good people cannot fully compensate for bad process, but they can mitigate some of its worst tendencies.”

― Richard N. Haass

“HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.”

― Richard Russo

“We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.”

― Robert Duvall

“I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don’t question how they do things.”

― Robert Kraft

“You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.”

― Robin Yount

“My idea is bring in good people and then get out of their way.”

― Rocky Wirtz

“I don’t require movies to be about good people, and I don’t reject screen violence.”

― Roger Ebert

“Good people climb quickly – just like in a company.”

― Rolf-Dieter Heuer

“The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don’t pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it’s a cheaper way of producing something else.”

― Ronald Coase

“I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.”

― Ronnie Montrose

“We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.”

― Rose Schneiderman

“I didn’t realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.”

― Ruby Dee

“One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one’s morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one’s darkest self, one’s venality and pettiness and murderousness.”

― Russell Smith

“It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.”

― Rutherford B. Hayes

“Back in the early ’70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn’t leave. I used to get so tired. I’d put on the Stanley Brothers, ‘Songs for the Good People,’ and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.”

― Ry Cooder

“I think it’s good to surround yourself with good people.”

― Ryan Sessegnon

“I was elected by the good people of Fort George for another five-year term, and I certainly intend to continue serving them in this, my seventh term as a member of the House of Representatives.”

― Said Musa

“I’ve got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?”

― Samantha Power

“Honestly, my secret is I pick really, really good people around me.”

― Sandra E. Peterson

“The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.”

― Scott Ellis

“I’m really good at hiring good people.”

― Sophia Amoruso

“Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.”

― Stella Young

“We try to do that for stories – we try to say, ‘OK, here’s the message, here’s the theme, here’s the good people and the bad.’ Life is not nearly like that.”

― Stephen Henderson

“The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It’s easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.”

― Steven Moffat

“I want to go working with good people on something that’s good, because otherwise it’s a big waste of time. I don’t have that much time.”

― Stockard Channing

“I feel fuzzy inside when I see good people make it.”

― Tech N9ne

“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

“We try to recruit good players and good people.”

― Tim Buckley

“I’ve surrounded myself with good people, so that keeps my head on my shoulders.”

― Tyler Shaw

“I’ve been surrounded by good people at West Virginia that have really helped me.”

― Will Grier

“I’ve been surrounded by good people at West Virginia. That helped me a lot.”

― Will Grier

“Most Muslim charities are run by good people.”

― William Shawcross

“I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.”

― Zachary Taylor

“Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.”

― Zhang Zhidong

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