Best 308 quotes in «good man quotes» category

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for all humankind. He gave us a good earth. Let us serve him by helping to preserve it for our children. 'A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children' (Proverbs 13:22 ).

What is a good man? Simply one whose life is useful to the world. And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others. There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness. These are the worst of all.

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.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

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.

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.

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.

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.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

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

[Yasuhiro] Yamashita is a respected judo master not only in Japan but across the world. To me, he is an example of an outstanding athlete and a very good man.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

If you’re really a man worth talking about, someone else will say it. If there's nothing good being said about you, maybe there’s nothing good to say.

You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

If you can't be as best as you dreamed of, Least be a good man in reality.

Look into yourself, Darrow, and you’ll realize that you are a good man who will have to do bad things.".... “See. That’s what I don’t get. If I am a good man, then why do I want to do bad things?

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

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

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.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

A good man always knows his limitations.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

A good man fights for himself. A great man fights for everyone else

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

A good man who did a bad thing.

A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.