Quotes on Good Man

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets; that hereafter he will give every man a spirit-home according to his deserts: if he has been a good man, he will have a good home; if he has been a bad man, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

Dressing well is a form of good manners.

Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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.

Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

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.

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

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

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.