Quotes on Good Man

He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

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.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

The good man does not grieve_x000D_ that other people do not recognize his merits._x000D_ His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

In every good man a God doth dwell.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.