Top 100 Quotes About Good Men: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Good Men

#1. 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.

Michael J. Fox

#2. The good men will come, when your whole

Kenya Wright

#3. Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.

Mordecai Richler

#4. But good men tend to die first.

Pierce Brown

#5. The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.

Ellen J. Barrier

#6. 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

Gautama Buddha

#7. And when the end comes, and when it is as horrible as good men always knew it would be, there is only one thing to say as all those good men approach the Throne of Judgment: I was misled.

Stephen King

#8. Gently - so have good men taught -
Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

William C. Bryant

#9. Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

John Philpot Curran

#10. What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Brendan Behan

#11. When good men does nothing, evil thrives. When good men speak up, evil dies.

Jeanette Coron

#12. Books that speak like God speak with too much authority to entertain us. Those that speak like good men hold us by their human charm; we grow by finding ourselves in them.

Thomas Merton

#13. Simon said nothing, thinking of all the good men who'd died because this inept, faithless fool had been born a King's son.

Sharon Kay Penman

#14. Good men are a bit like border collies: we're happiest when we're useful. That's why the life of a good man involves constant striving for direction and meaning.

Shawn T. Smith

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

Jim Rohn

#16. Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.

Simone Elkeles

#17. There are no good men in this game," said Mitch. But Sydney didn't care about good. She wasn't sure she believed in it. "I'm not afraid of Victor." "I know." He sounded sad when he said it.

V.E Schwab

#18. It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

Jean De La Bruyere

#19. You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

Roy Bean

#20. You must be taught the Skill, boy," he said as if it were a decision painfully come by. "Evil times have come to us, and they will be with us for a long time. It is a time when good men must create whatever weapons they can.

Robin Hobb

#21. Bad men do what good men only dream.

Gavin Ewart

#22. There are no good men in Ketterdam, Kaz said. And then he'd simply let go.

Leigh Bardugo

#23. Good men fall to monsters every day.

E.K. Johnston

#24. When under suffering we see good men go to pieces we do not witness the failure of a moral discipline to take effect; we witness the advance of death where death comes by inches.

Jocelyn Gibb

#25. Osama Bin Laden is dead? Oh my God, that was so easy! And it only took two trillion dollars, two wars and too many good men.

Christopher Titus

#26. Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

Ruta Sepetys

#27. Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

Boethius

#28. FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

Stuart Symington

#29. Bad men are never all bad, and good men are never all good, and it makes it hard to know up from down.

Rae Carson

#30. Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#31. Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

Theodore Roosevelt

#32. It's said on my world that the only thing evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing." - Will Bradshaw

Arthur Daigle

#33. Now is the time for all good men to run like hell.

Craig Bruce

#34. It's always a shame when good men die for a wretched man's cause.

Matthew Wolf

#35. I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

Angie Stone

#36. Pipes are not to be used for teaching, nor any artificial instruments, as the harp, or the like: but whatsoever will make the hearers good men.

Thomas Aquinas

#37. 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

#38. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#39. All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

Elbert Hubbard

#40. As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.

Steven Pressfield

#41. All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing

Amanda Hocking

#42. There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Francis Atterbury

#43. That is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Patricia Briggs

#44. There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - even 'A Few Good Men' because it's an adult courtroom drama, and studios do not make them any more. And so every movie that I make, have made and will make is always going be independently financed.

Rob Reiner

#45. I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

Curt Flood

#46. What I observe is that the world is ruled by men - good men and bad, desperate men and those with principles.

Brian Staveley

#47. And, having killed him (Abhimanyu), your people danced round his dead body like savage hunters exulting over their prey. All good men in the army were grieved and tears rolled from their eyes. Even the birds of prey, that circled overhead making noises seemed to cry 'Not thus! Not thus!

C.Rajagopalachari

#48. Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil

Dean Cavanagh

#49. Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Wes Fesler

#50. Evil men do what good men only dream of doing.

Anonymous

#51. Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

Henry Ward Beecher

#52. Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

Benjamin Whichcote

#53. The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

David O. McKay

#54. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates

#55. Good men have the fewest fears.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#56. When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

#57. I am in the service of lost boys struggling to be good men.

Chuck Dixon

#58. To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

Dean Koontz

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

Saint Augustine

#60. God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men

Peter Kreeft

#61. Son," his father said. "Run faithfully to the end, and like all good men, you will die of having lived.

N.D. Wilson

#62. But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle - friendship can only exist between good men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#63. The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Samuel Richardson

#64. Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.

Veena Sud

#65. It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#66. Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#67. I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

Kevin Costner

#68. So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing.

Frank E. Peretti

#69. Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

Woodrow Wilson

#70. One finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what name we have called ourselves. I have come to believe that there is more grace in becoming wheat then there is in pulling up weeds.

Michael Flynn

#71. For though all persons are equally subject to the caprice of fortune, yet all good men have one advantage she cannot deny, which is this, to act reasonably under misfortunes.

Plutarch

#72. The challenge of good men is not to thwart change, but to mold it as it comes, so that it may benefit rather than destroy.

G. Norman Lippert

#73. Ll that is necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing. I supposed old Edmund Burke had meant to include women in that. And if he hadn't, well, screw him.

Rachel Caine

#74. Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Patrick Henry

#75. Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, 'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

Diogenes

#76. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

Henry David Thoreau

#77. I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

Clement Freud

#78. Judge him by his actions and not your suspicions," he says. "Because if the only measure of a man's worth is what he does to make money, a lot of good men would be judged unfairly.

J.M. Darhower

#79. Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

Walter Lippmann

#80. Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.

William Goldman

#81. When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

J. Edgar Hoover

#82. You can't handle the truth! - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.

Aaron Sorkin

#83. I know he is
sensitive
on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.

Jed Rubenfeld

#84. To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

#85. [There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

Polybius

#86. Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

David Gemmell

#87. The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#88. Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.

Suzi Quatro

#89. The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

Charles Eliot Norton

#90. Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.

Tracey Forbes

#91. I'm sure they were good men, the ones you lost." "Good at dying," he said.

Steven Erikson

#92. Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#93. There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Arthur C. Clarke

#94. There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#95. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt