Best 308 quotes in «good man quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

[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.

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?

You know I'm no squealer, Harry.' 'You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.' 'I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.' 'They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?

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

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 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 woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

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.

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.

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'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 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.

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

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

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

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 murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Preserve only a good conscience toward God, and a loving purpose toward your fellow men, and you need not wince nor tremble, though the pack of the spaniel-hearted hounds snarl at your heels.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

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.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

[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.

As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!

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

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.