Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities. — Fielding H. Yost
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. — Knute Rockne
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way. — Jim Courier
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. — George Will
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain
It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other. — Jordan Spieth
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson
You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser. — Joe Namath
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness. — William Arthur Ward
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. — John Wesley
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. — Plato
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion. — Abraham Lincoln
Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on. — Pharrell Williams
I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you. — Usain Bolt
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him. — Hippocrates
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim. — Ibn Taymiyyah
It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing. — Jose Rizal
Be Good Quotes
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Pastime with good company
I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I. — Henry VIII of England
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. — Nelson Mandela
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. — Sojourner Truth
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. — Carl Rogers
Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me. — Clare of Assisi
It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world. — Kwame Nkrumah
Goodness Quotes
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society. — Antonin Scalia
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. — Margaret Walker
When a man finds a good woman and treats her the way she deserves to be treated it will change his Life. God favors a man that finds his wife and Loves her the way God Loves her — Tony Gaskins
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. — Jose Rizal
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting. — Nouman Ali Khan
Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow. — Misha Collins
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. — Paul the Apostle
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. — Barack Obama
Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise. — Zoroaster
Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good. — Conor McGregor
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. — Sue Wicks
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top. — Chili Davis
Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it. — Richard Armour
Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not. — John Wooden
I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better. — Emilie Loring
The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship. — Amy Van Dyken
That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot. — Tristan Blackwood
I would rather win than have good sportsmanship. — Allen Iverson
It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense. — Del Harris
Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day. — Kevin Wall
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