Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Try to be a better person everyday.

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.

I lay back and see how I can do things the right way.

It's a full time job - trying to be at peace in my life, trying to be a better person and be best in every way I can be, be a good brother, be a good actor and a good human being.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.