Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. — James C. Collins
Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets. — Philip Kotler
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — John D. Rockefeller
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — Kenny Rogers
For a group to be great, both good governance and excellent execution are required. It’s not one or the other. — Koos Bekker
The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset! — Eric Thomas
Being a great company is the new brand. — Alex Bogusky
The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort. — Duffy Daugherty
Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best. — Unknown Author
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. — Charles R. Swindoll
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. — Tim Duncan
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. — Orrin Woodward
you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. — Les Brown
Working hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great — Thad Matta
A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good. — Gary Player
Short Good To Great Quotes
The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE — Tibor Kalman
Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough. — Gurbaksh Chahal
Great leaders encourage and enable others to become great. — Susan McCann
The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great. — James C. Collins
Good is not good, when better is expected. — Thomas Fuller
The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility. — James C. Collins
Big thinking precedes great achievement. — Wilferd A. Peterson
The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency. — Jim Tressel
Greatness is a craft. Greatness is a process. Greatness is a habit. — Tom Bilyeu
Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone. — Robin S. Sharma
Top 10 Good To Great Quotes
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person. — Iker Casillas
You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look — T. D. Jakes
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Winston Churchill
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. — J. R. D. Tata
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. — Billy Crystal
Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I'm hurting right now but it's great to know good people have my back!! — Roman Reigns
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. — Victor Papanek
People who love to eat are always the best people. — Julia Child
Great vision without great people is irrelevant. — James C. Collins
Don't be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.
Doing Good Quotes
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
Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
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
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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
Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
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
You have to say no to a lot of good things in order to be able to say yes to a lot of great things.
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
Good design is obvious, great design is transparent.
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
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. — Alexis de Tocqueville
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
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience. — George Whitefield
The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind. — Theodor Herzl
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — Rumi
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. — David Brainerd
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
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen. — Hans Zimmer
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being. — Eleanor Roosevelt
It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished. — Nick Saban
It takes a great man to be a good listener. — Calvin Coolidge
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky
If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you. — Wayne Dyer
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys
If you have "needing money" in your vibration, then you will keep attracting needing money. You have to find a way of being happy NOW, feeling good NOW, and being in joy NOW, without the money, because those great feelings are how you will feel with the money. Money doesn't bring happiness - but HAPPINESS BRINGS MONEY. — Rhonda Byrne
There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good. — J. Vernon McGee
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets; that hereafter he will give every man a spirit-home according to his deserts: if he has been a good man, he will have a good home; if he has been a bad man, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same. — Chief Joseph
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. — Indra Nooyi
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence. — David Whyte
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. — James C. Collins
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. — Paul Halmos
And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control. — Paul Tudor Jones
I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine." It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter. — Michael J. Fox
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. — George Washington
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