Good Man famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.
-- African Spir -
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
-- Albert Camus -
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
-- Albert Camus -
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
-- Alec Guinness -
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
-- Alfred Agache -
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
Good manners require space and time.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
-- Amy Vanderbilt -
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
-- Ann Radcliffe -
If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.
-- Anna Sewell -
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.
-- Antisthenes -
God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.
-- Aphra Behn -
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.
-- Aristotle -
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
-- Aristotle -
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.
-- Aristotle -
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
-- Aristotle -
Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
-- Aristotle -
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
-- Augustus -
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.
-- Ben Jonson -
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
-- Ben Jonson -
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
-- Ben Jonson -
The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
-- Bill Kelly -
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
-- Billy Sunday -
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.
-- Bion of Borysthenes -
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.
-- Blaise Pascal -
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
-- Bram Stoker -
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
-- Brigham Young -
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
-- Bruce Lee -
what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?
-- Bryce Courtenay -
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.
-- C. D. Broad -
Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
-- C. S. Lewis -
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
-- C. S. Lewis -
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?
-- C.P. Snow -
Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
-- Candice Swanepoel -
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
-- Cato the Elder -
Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
-- Charles Bukowski -
The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.
-- Charles Eliot Norton -
It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
-- Charles Lamb -
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
-- Charles Simmons -
The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The life of a good man is a continual prayer.
-- Charlotte Lennox -
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
-- Chester W. Nimitz -
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
-- Christopher Ricks -
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
-- Claude Monet -
Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.
-- Claudius Buchanan -
This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
-- Clayton Christensen -
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
-- Colley Cibber -
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
-- Confucius -
A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.
-- Confucius -
Now is the time for all good men to run like hell.
-- Craig Reucassel -
Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.
-- D. Todd Christofferson -
Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.
-- David Gemmell -
One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.
-- Deborah Kerr -
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
-- Democritus -
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
-- Demonax -
Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?
-- Dennis Lehane -
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
-- Derek Jarman -
I will say, just being here, God is good, man...
-- Derrick Rose -
Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
-- Diogenes -
There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
-- Earl Weaver -
Life must go on, Though good men die.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.
-- Edward Higgins White -
May the good God pardon all good men.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
-- Emile Zola -
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.
-- Emily Post -
Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
-- Euripides -
When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
-- Euripides -
Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
-- Fanny Jackson Coppin -
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
-- Federico Fellini -
Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.
-- Felipe Alou -
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.
-- Frances Wright -
A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.
-- Francis Atterbury -
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.
-- Francis Atterbury -
There is a variety in tempers of good men.
-- Francis Atterbury -
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
-- Francis Bowen -
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.
-- Frank Chodorov -
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways
-- Franz Boas -
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.
-- G. H. Hardy -
I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
-- Gary Busey
