A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. — Elbert Hubbard
Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet. — James Patterson
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. — Barbara Kingsolver
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! — Mark Twain
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. — Cato The Elder
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. — James Howell
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. — Antoine Rivarol
Remembrance of things past. — William Shakespeare
To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember — Jimmy Hoffa
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. — Ben Jonson
Top 10 Good Memory Quotes
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar
I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. — Grace Kelly
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave — Elijah Muhammad
The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory — Ingrid Bergman
People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane. — Kid Cudi
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. — Helen Keller
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope. — Pope Benedict XVI
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. — Ray Charles
Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day — Roger Meddows Taylor
Good Memory Image Quotes
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Making Good Memory Quotes
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness. — Pope John XXIII
I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones. — Ravi Zacharias
It's realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory. The dream can be had by anyone. The memory - must be made. — Eric Thomas
One day, you'll be just a memory for some people. Do your best to be a good one.
For young players, classic games are brand new. For older players, they bring back memories and make you feel good. — Satoru Iwata
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected. — Edgar Lee Masters
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. — Winston Churchill
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them. — Saint John Chrysostom
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories. — Connie Stevens
All bad memories erased! Now you can make new ones-good memories. — Jung Woo
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good. — Gretchen Rubin
Having Good Memory Quotes
A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it. — Raul Julia
Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say. — Xavi
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden
Always have old memories, and young hopes. — Arsene Houssaye
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me. — Paul Nurse
I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die. — Ruth Ozeki
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. — John Forbes Nash, Jr.
A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy. — Jackie French
I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times. — Kylian Mbappe
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Keep Good Memory Quotes
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory. — Jim Rohn
It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh. — Mark Bittman
In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone. — Ray Bergman
One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made. — Ann Brashares
People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat. — Marah Ellis Ryan
I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that. — Nicole Williams
I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things. — Wim Wenders
Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head. — Craig Finn
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. — Cato the Younger
Good Friend Memory Quotes
When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good. — Helen Keller
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. — Donna Roberts
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends — William Shakespeare
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. — Tom Stoppard
There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott. — Martin Scorsese
Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.' — Anna Letitia Barbauld
When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them — Charles Caleb Colton
I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors. — Samuel Alito
Good And Bad Memory Quotes
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. — Albert Schweitzer
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. — Samuel Beckett
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation. — Robert Louis Stevenson
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good. — Varlam Shalamov
Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories. — Lois Lowry
I talk different, I walk different, everything. I don't have one single bad memory [there]. Not one. It was my sanctuary. I hated school, wasn't good in school, and me and my dad butted heads about that. But nothing mattered when I went home to Alabama. — Channing Tatum
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. — Charles Caleb Colton
But surely, if you trust God, you can believe the bad moments pass, and the good memories are worth enough. — Helen Hooven Santmyer
The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. — Greg Maddux
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. — Audrey Hepburn
Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. — Brassai
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. — Timothy Leary
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. — Will Self
Originality is for people with short memories — Grayson Perry
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. — Doug Larson
You Too? I thought I was the only one. — C. S. Lewis
Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. — Chris Bradford
Poor Memory Quotes
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory. — Aldo Gucci
Poor oral health, specifically gum disease and tooth loss, correlates with rapid brain decay in the memory-associated hippocampus. — Rhonda Patrick
I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there? — Pam Muñoz Ryan
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. — Lewis Carroll
I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor. — Bryce Courtenay
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. — Alexander Smith
There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory. — Herbert V. Prochnow
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People read the poetry when it was written. In Ireland, there was a poor literacy rate and people remember that poetry. That was handed on as a memorial tradition. — Eavan Boland
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond. — George Bernard Shaw
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. — Rupert Brooke
No Memory Quotes
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. — Guy de Maupassant
Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world. — Masaru Emoto
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. — J. K. Rowling
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing. — Luis Bunuel
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. — Desmond Tutu
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. — Stephen King
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation. — George Washington
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. — Thomas Moore
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is good to those who know how to live. I do not ever hope to accumulate great funds of worldly wealth, but I shall accumulate something far more valuable, a store of wonderful memories. When I reach the twilight of life I shall look back and say I'm glad I lived as I did, life has been good to me. — Sigurd F. Olson
Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the redemption of the human race, the most appropriate time to consecrate a portion from abounding riches and scant poverty to send forth the good tidings of great joy into all the earth? — Lottie Moon
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. — Anthony Bourdain
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine." — Carl Jung
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. — Karl Lagerfeld
A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion. — Jeffrey Stepakoff
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later. — George Foreman
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. — Mariska Hargitay
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. — Abraham Lincoln
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. — Kurt Cobain
I hope my message has at least jarred you into rethinking the standard and conventional approaches to living one’s life — get a good job, work hard through endless hours, and then retire in your sixties or seventies and live out your days in your so-called golden years. But I still ask you: Why wait until your health and life energy have begun to wane? Rather than just focusing on saving up for a big pot full of money that you will most likely not be able to spend in your lifetime, live your life to the fullest now. Chase memorable life experiences, give money to your kids when they can best use it, donate money to charity while you’re still alive. That’s the way to live life. Remember: In the end, the business of life is the acquisition of memories. So what are you waiting for? — Bill Perkins
When you retire, people don’t look at how good you became. They look at what you’ve won. We remember the winners. — Kylian Mbappe
The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master. — Ben Hur Lampman
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. — Eudora Welty
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. — Philip Gourevitch
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of good memory quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about good memory to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of good memory quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
