Good Man Quotes - Page 6

• The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Thinking, Debt

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.429

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• I'm good man, repin' Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the fullest. Lettin' everybody know that I got some new heat comin' to the streets.

  Lil Boosie

  Men, Louisiana, Heat

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.

  Guru Nanak

  Letting Go, Prayer, Compassion

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• Mike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president.

  Paul Ryan

  Men, President, Vices

  Source: time.com

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• Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.

  Bhartrhari

  Rain, Character, Men

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• The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Men, Wind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.36

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• J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Past, Men, Evil

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• 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.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mistake, Sometimes, Should

  Clayton Christensen (2015). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations of his sympathies. Caring nothing for race, or color, he loves those who speak other languages and worship other gods. Between him and those who suffer, there is no impassable gulf. He salutes the world, and extends the hand of friendship to the human race. He does not bow before a provincial and patriotic god -- one who protects his tribe or nation, and abhors the rest of mankind.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Country, Patriotic

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Miscellany”

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• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  Charles Simmons

  Littles, Energy, Attention

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• 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.]

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Law, May, Needs

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• Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

  Martial

  Pain, Men, Retrospect

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• A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

  Martial

  Men, Goodness, Existence

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• Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

  Stanley Tucci

  Men, Bananas, Stores

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• Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

  Martial

  Men, Black, Clubs

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• 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.

  Frances Wright

  Clever, Men, Knaves

  Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.31

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• Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

  George Herbert

  Men, Faults, Ill

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348

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• If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.

  George Herbert

  Men, Thrive, Ifs

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.315

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• He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

  George Herbert

  Men, Way, Company

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.364

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• A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

  Bhartrhari

  Fall, Men, Clay

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• The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.

  Bhartrhari

  Adversity, Men, Evil

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• I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Heart, Mean

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

  George Eliot

  Book, Reading, Men

  George Eliot (2010). “Middlemarch”, p.305, Lulu.com

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• A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Feelings, Found, Fraud

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• The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you have conquered all your sins, pride is the one which will conquer you. A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he's convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he's a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have god on their side. Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous.

  Helen Fielding

  War, Pride, Men

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