Quotes on Good Man

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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!

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else

Where there are no women there are no good manners

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

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.