Good Man Quotes - Page 39

• Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

  John Philpot Curran

  Men, Evil

  12 Copy quote

• I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

  Sergio Leone

  Men, Interesting, Sublime

  30 Copy quote

• Good men must be affectionate men.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Affectionate

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.228

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

  Max Schmeling

  Men, Hardest, Plans

  Max Schmeling (1998). “Max Schmeling: An Autobiography”, Taylor Trade Publishing

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

  Georg Buchner

  Men, Walks, Conscience

  "Woyzeck". Play by Georg Büchner, Scene X, 1879.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.

  June Carter Cash

  Inspirational, Mother, Good Life

  15 Copy quote

• Be strong-be strong in the discipline of self. How many otherwise good men squander their strength and dissipate their will and literally destroy their lives because they have not the power of self-discipline.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Men, Self

  5 Copy quote

• A good man who did a bad thing.

  Mary Matalin

  Men, Politics, Bad Things

  4 Copy quote

• Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

  C. I. Scofield

  Kindness, Men, Justice

  86 Copy quote

• Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

  Colley Cibber

  Screw You, Compass, Manners

  Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.49

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Pay, Dignity

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Integrity, Men, Lapses

  8 Copy quote

• Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Sight, Cynical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

  James E. Faust

  Lying, Sleep, Self

  4 Copy quote

• A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

  H. R. Giger

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Alien Artist H.R. Giger Passes Away at Age 74" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 13, 2014.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• A tough fight against evil is the duty of good man.

  Khem Veasna

  Fighting, Men, Evil

  13 Copy quote

• Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Years, May

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

  Cleopatra

  Men, History, Historical

  61 Copy quote

• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Sweet, Thinking

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XLIX”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good manners are a sign of strength.

  Dick Francis

  Manners, Good Manners

  12 Copy quote

• A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Way, Instinct

  7 Copy quote

• For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Law, Needs, May

  9 Copy quote

• For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

  Socrates

  Men, Gentleman, Causes

  "The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 1". Book by Plato, Clarendon Press, p. 148, 1871.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

  Samuel Beckett

  Men, Goodness, Bottom

  "Malone Dies". Book by Samuel Beckett, 1951.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

  Max Muller

  Men, Long, Evil

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.18, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source