Best 308 quotes in «good man quotes» category

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

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

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

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.

Dressing well is a form of good manners.

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.

Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.

Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

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

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

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

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

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

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.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

Forget love. Try good manners.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

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

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

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

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

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

[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.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners

Good manners require space and time.

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.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

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.

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.