180 Good Story Quotes

Following is our list of good story quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what makes a good story.

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Famous Good Story Quotes

A boy's story is the best that is ever told. — Charles Dickens

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check. — Erle Stanley Gardner

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it. — O. Henry

Whoever tells the best story wins. — John Quincy Adams

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it. — Carsten Jensen

Another story must begin! — Victor Hugo

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself. — James Genn

He is a good storyteller who can turn a man's ears into eyes. — Moroccan Proverbs

Every real story is a never ending story. - Michael Ende

Every real story is a never ending story. — Michael Ende

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. — Raymond Chandler

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. — Shonda Rhimes

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end. — Dan Harmon

Why ruin a good story with the truth? — Woody Allen

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. - Mark Twain

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. — Mark Twain

Successful people often enjoy telling their story. — Lewis Howes

Short Good Story Quotes

  • Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence. — Ben Harper
  • As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story. — John Green
  • I'm always a sucker for a love story. — Sofia Coppola
  • All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy
  • There is no story that is not true. — Chinua Achebe
  • One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story. — John Hope Franklin
  • Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness. — Mark Twain
  • The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar
  • Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it. — N. Scott Momaday
  • Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story. — Cecelia Ahern

Top 10 Good Story Quotes

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable. — Anthony Jeselnik

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. — C. S. Lewis

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet. — J. R. R. Tolkien

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck

Marketing is about telling good stories. Social media marketing is about getting your customers to tell them for you. — Ryan Deiss

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. - James Dashner

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. — James Dashner

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. — Frederik Pohl

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets. — Spike Lee

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. — Graham Greene

Good Story Image Quotes

Good story quote People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

Live A Good Story Quotes

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time. — Donald Miller

Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure. — Jo-Ann Mapson

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character. — Andy Serkis

Good story quote A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.
A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.

Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians… Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live. — Spencer Antle

It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help. — Donald Miller

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything. — Artie Lange

Good story quote We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one !
We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one !

Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy. — John Piper

It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living. — Henry Bromell

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story. — Bob Gaudio

I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks. — Sayings

What Makes A Good Story Quotes

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good? — Matt Stone

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. — Hironobu Sakaguchi

I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point, and, perhaps, even make a difference. — Cornell Capa

Good story quote We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one !
We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one !

That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films. — Sharlto Copley

Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up. — Barry Hannah

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath with their thrilling sea-going adventures! A wonderful story, full of bold mice, good and wicked, who will show you what courage really means. — Lynne Reid Banks

Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive. — Romany Malco

What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig. — Michael Morpurgo

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story. — Jim Shepard

Good 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

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

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

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

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

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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 CusinatiMaria Callas

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius

Good Morning Quotes

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky. — Unknown Author

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. - Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. — Rumi

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond

love the life you live. live the life you love. - Bob Marley

love the life you live. live the life you love. — Bob Marley

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. — Adrian Rogers

In God we trust; all others bring data. - W. Edwards Deming

In God we trust; all others bring data. — W. Edwards Deming

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. - Meister Eckhart

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. — Meister Eckhart

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today. — Joel Osteen

Good Night Quotes

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. — Napoleon Bonaparte

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? — Dr. Seuss

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke. — Tupac Shakur

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. — William Shakespeare

I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’ — Humphrey Bogart

We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. — David Steindl-Rast

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. — Edward R. Murrow

Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow. — Dylan Thomas

Good Storytelling Quotes

I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page. — Akira Toriyama

A good tale never tires in the telling. — Scottish Proverbs

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller. — Bruce Dickinson

Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact, to me, the best storytelling is not universally loved by every single person. I think you can water down the ethicacy of the work, itself. — Bryan Cranston

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it. — Peter Guber

Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that. — Danny Boyle

I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that. — Ricky Gervais

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest. — Lena Waithe

A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown

And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that. — Michelle Yeoh

Good Book Quotes

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. — Abraham Lincoln

There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it? — Lemmy Kilmister

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Abdul Kalam

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. — Mark Twain

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed. — Leo Tolstoy

I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! — Abigail Williams

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros

Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God. — Ramakrishna

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. - John Steinbeck

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. - Charles Spurgeon

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. — Charles Spurgeon

Good Movie Quotes

I'm not a party animal. I'm a chill homebody. I like to watch movies and go out to eat. That's my idea of a good time. I'm definitely able to be social. — Jhene Aiko

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig. — Clint Eastwood

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. — Harrison Ford

Actually, with those dirty movies, I find like, they're good for about fifteen, twenty minutes. I'm really interested. And, then, uh, there's one point, that all of a sudden I'm bored. You know? I just lose interest completely and I feel deeply ashamed. — Norm MacDonald

A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him. — Alfred Hitchcock

I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it. — Sarah Polley

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. — George Lucas

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday. — Steven Cojocaru

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. — Dick Brandon

Good Reading Quotes

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations. — Vladimir Nabokov

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. — Malcolm X

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them? — Buddha

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. - John Bosco

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. — John Bosco

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. — Ray Charles

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. — Arthur Schopenhauer

My alma mater was books, a good library. — Malcolm X

Good Song Quotes

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me. — Bob Marley

A good song receives love forever. — Kim Jong-hyun

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. — Joni Mitchell

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people. — Syd Barrett

Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year — Thomas Tusser

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste. — Sarah Vaughan

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. — Tony Visconti

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. — Woody Guthrie

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like — James Taylor

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More Good Story Quotes

People say all the time 'I don't have a good testimony' because they think their story has to involve some dramatic story of change from 'bad' to 'good'. But Jesus didn't come to save people this way. Sin doesn't make us bad it makes us dead. Jesus came to save by bringing the dead to life. And that's an amazing testimony. — Louie Giglio

Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well. — Aliko Dangote

There's a big misconception that controversy and negativity is the only way to get clicks, because that's how it is in the media, for the most part, they don't want good stories, they just want bad things. — MrBeast

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it. — Charles Dickens

When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life. — Arsene Wenger

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within. — Will Durant

I do think we have to admit as an industry that crypto has attracted more fraudsters than we'd like. It probably is getting too many people like that into this industry, which does frustrate me. I still think 95% of the people who I meet in crypto are legitimate people trying to do really good work. They don't really get the lion share of the attention, because everybody loves the salacious story. — Brian Armstrong

Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good. — Marshall Ganz

When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics. — Mark Gatiss

Sometimes the music just has to tell the story without you trying to tell the story. It depends on the type of music you want to make. If it makes you feel good and party then you go with that. If it makes you feel like speaking on something real and doing a story then it's the beat just has to have the story. — Tyga

The drain of gold from Britain is a little-known story with enormous consequences. Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance focuses on this episode, and does a good job of discussing the individuals involved and the drama taking place, but adopts the reigning Keynesian understanding of the issue, putting the blame for the entire episode on the gold standard. — Saifedean Ammous

If you have a good story, it doesn’t have to be overproduced. I want our stories to reveal the wonders of the human spirit and the richness of life in California, including its history, people, culture and natural wonders. — Huell Howser

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. — John Grisham

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave. — Gerard Way

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person. — Stan Lee

A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story. — Glennon Melton

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. — Fran Lebowitz

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story. — Gene Siskel

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life. — Dorothea Benton Frank

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. — Stanley Schmidt

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story. — Brian Keene

If my stories can touch you, make you laugh, forget unhappy things, or even give you that 'good job' feeling, then I'll be super, super happy! — Kyousuke Motomi

I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a box and throw in the towel. There is good that can come from anything, even if it's just a later laugh and a good story. — Lindsey Stirling

This is the only time in history when I get to fight for God. This is the only part of my eternal story when I am actually in the battle. Once I die, I’ll be in celebration mode in a glorified body in a whole different set of circumstances. But this is my limited window of opportunity, and I’m going to fight the good fight for all I’m worth. — Joni Eareckson Tada

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do. — Katy Perry

We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group. — Kendrick Lamar

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