Good Man Quotes - Page 4

• A man cannot do good before he is made good.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Evil, Made

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• The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

  David O. McKay

  Change, Faith, Jesus

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• He’s very close to his family  His parents have been married 40 years.  He’s got a pure heart.  That’s all that matters—he’s got the purest heart.  I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life.  I found the person I’m sharing my life with.  I have a good man.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Grateful, Heart, Men

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• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq

  John Flavel

  Book, Men, Funeral

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• I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Thinking, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.48

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

  Epictetus

  Men, Doe, Done

  Epictetus “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, Lulu.com

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• It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Mind, Deeds

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• Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Men, Evil

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 11,

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• 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.

  Confucius

  Men, Roots, Flow

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• 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.

  John Muir

  Home, Men, United States

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.615, e-artnow

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• I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Morning, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.44, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• [There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

  Polybius

  Integrity, Men, Honor

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• But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

  Thomas Campbell

  Angel, Men, Giving

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.81

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• I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Girl, Intelligent, Arrogance

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• I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Writing, Men, Honor

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• There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• 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.

  Tom Ford

  Views, Trying, Dresses

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• You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Enemy, May

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• We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Christian, Kings, Men

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• It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know what they were saying back then? That families would dissolve. That it was the end of good manners and society. There has always been a conservative and traditional opinion out there that's afraid of change. When I was young and would go dancing at balls, we'd have to wear suits and ties. Otherwise they wouldn't let us in. I don't think anyone dresses up for dancing parties nowadays.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Party, Humble

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• The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Manners, Bases

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Ready, Submit

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• Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

  Quentin Crisp

  Block, Lying, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Life, Family

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.60, Lulu.com

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