Good Man Quotes - Page 21

• There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, People, Leader

  Source: www.mott.org

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Men, Progress

  Source: www.mott.org

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• 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.

  Plato

  Men, Thinking, Life And Death

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

  Brendan Behan

  Men, Differences, History

  Brendan Behan (2014). “Behan Complete Plays”, p.210, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When you retire, you start to try different things and you choose the one you enjoy the most. As a player, it's difficult to know if you'll be a good manager or not because you might think you can't deal with the dressing room or won't enjoy the game from the sidelines. There's also punditry and careers on TV, so football gives you many different options.

  Michel Salgado

  Football, Player, Thinking

  Source: uk.complex.com

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• Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.

  Murdoc Niccals

  Mean, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my mouth: "A good man needs to know his limitations."

  Ted Nugent

  Dirty, Men, Needs

  Source: blog.bullz-eye.com

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• I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Men, Everyday Things, Decision

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've got a good agent, I've got a good manager, I'm getting a lot of work out there and doing a lot of stuff - getting a lot of film projects on the go.

  Irvine Welsh

  Work Out, Trainspotting, Albatross

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

  Plato

  Men, Dying, Acting

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

  Plato

  Men, Affair, Neglected

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.44, Hackett Publishing

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• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  Plato

  Men, Errors, Views

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

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• [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.

  Vladimir Putin

  Athlete, Men, Japan

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.

  Ai Weiwei

  Museums, Government, Years

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Moving, Apology, Men

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• The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

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• Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Add, May

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Critical Shaw: On Literature”, p.194, RosettaBooks

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• But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Men, Hands

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

  Aristotle

  Motivation, Character, Patriotic

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• As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Men, Easier

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for Sept. 1783)

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• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  Euripides

  Hurt, Character, Men

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

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• There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Thinking, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.540, Routledge

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• I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have another name for them. We want women who can make a home, and if need be, handle a rifle.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Father, Believe

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• If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

  Anna Sewell

  Men, Done, Way

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.185

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• Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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