Good Man Quotes

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

A tough fight against evil is the duty of good man.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

The good man makes others good.

Good manners are never passé.

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

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.

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.

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

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.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

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.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.