Good Man Quotations | Page 4

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

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.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

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.

A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

Good people equals good management and good management equals good people.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

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.

A good man always knows his limitations.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.

A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

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

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

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

Where there are no women there are no good manners

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every one impartially is exactly the same. Therefore we must not think that we are the saviours of the world. We can teach the world, a good many things, and we can learn a good many things from it too. We can teach the world only what it is waiting for.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

What makes a good man?

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.