Quotes About A Man Is Only As Good As His Word

#1. The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

George Horace Lorimer

#3. An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Miguel De Cervantes

#4. a man's word must be as good as an oath sworn beneath the Light or it was no good at all.

Robert Jordan

#5. A man's only as good as his word.

Rodd Thunderheart

#6. To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture
a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.

James Hudson Taylor

#7. If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

Wilson Rawls

#8. I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has everybody's good word and nobody's notice ...

Jane Austen

#9. He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character

Charles C. Mann

#10. A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things

Tertullian

#13. We found many difficulties to combat, for it is not an easy thing to go into France and learn to talk French well; but at the same time, if a man sets to work in good earnest, he can do it. I have scratched the word "can't" out of my vocabulary long since, and I have not got it in my French one.

John Taylor

#14. He gave me his word. That means something to a man like Donovan Caine.
Yeah, it means you'll realize he's an exceptionally good liar when you're clutching your intestines and choking on your own blood on his living room floor.

Jennifer Estep

#15. If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.

Bill McCartney

#16. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

Howard Thurman

#17. A Short Southern Screw? So I was right. You're craving something south ot the Mason-Dixon Line."
He moved closer, crowding her even though there was still a good twelve inches between them.
"I can assure you, though, I'm a man who isn't short in any sense of the word.

Katee Robert

#18. I scratched the word HELLO in small letters ... And as names go, it's a good one, isn't it? In spite of all the damage that followed, I still think that's the perfect name for a picture drawn by a man who was trying his best not to be sad anymore - who was trying to remember how it felt to be happy.

Stephen King

#19. Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

Joe Hill

#20. If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

Lee Iacocca

#21. The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

Evel Knievel

#22. No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

Jonathan Swift

#23. You are a good counter...

T-Man (......You used the F word 31 times.......)

Deyth Banger

#24. Do not sow the Word of God plus man's philosophies, man's theories, man's traditions. Just sow the pure Word of God. A good farmer washes his seed before he sows it. A good spiritual farmer makes sure he does not mix God's Word with anything defiling.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#25. If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Aeschylus

#26. Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know?' River Song, A Good Man Goes to War

Cavan Scott

#27. Comeback is a good word, man.

Mickey Rourke

#28. I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said.
"No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards.

William Goldman

#29. God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.

J. Vernon McGee

#30. Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Solomon