Samuel Beckett Quotes

A lot of the time, people think I have a high opinion of myself when I really don't.

I'm a good man.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want to be. We see ourselves as good and generous. We believe we are a virtuous nation.

I think I'm a decent person.

I'm the good guy, I'm a family guy.

I am not selfish.

I've never been a bad guy - never acted like a tough guy.

I'm a good person. I've led a good life.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.