Well Quotes

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.