Best 308 quotes in «good man quotes» category

The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

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

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people.

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

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

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

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

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

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it.

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.

They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

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

Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

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

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

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 ).

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

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.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Where there are no women there are no good manners

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.