Top 100 The Good Man Quotes
#1. Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ...
Benjamin Franklin
#2. The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
William, Saroyan
#4. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#5. The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.
Bhartrhari
#6. The good man does not grieve
that other people do not recognize his merits.
His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.
Confucius
#7. The good man's only singularity lies in his approving welcome to every experience the looms of fate may weave for him,
Diana Gabaldon
#8. Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
Aristotle.
#9. Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.
Herman Melville
#10. The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.
George MacDonald
#11. Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
Oliver Goldsmith
#12. It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
Publilius Syrus
#13. When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).
James Montgomery
#14. It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
Charles Lamb
#15. The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
Aristotle.
#16. The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.
Augustine Of Hippo
#17. War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Sophocles
#18. The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
Laozi
#20. Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.
Confucius
#22. The good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.
Augustine Of Hippo
#23. To do...what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that...make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are.
Dean Koontz
#24. It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
Oliver Goldsmith
#26. If you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair.
Karen Witemeyer
#27. The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.
Steve Goodier
#28. The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.
Confucius
#29. In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
Mary Renault
#30. The gorgeous man presents a gorgeous view;
The good man will in time be gorgeous, too.
Sappho
#31. The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the "good man".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. But you love to play the good man, don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do and he'll always find himself an excuse.
Joe Abercrombie
#33. The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
Rubianne Wood
#34. The Good Man
Better an enmity from one block
than friendship held together by glue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
James Anthony Froude
#36. The good man's life is full of light. The sinner's road is dark and gloomy.
Anonymous
#37. The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey
#38. Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.
Aristotle.
#39. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest - health, integrity, purity (if you like) - is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
Albert Camus
#40. The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#41. The good man makes others good.
Menander
#42. The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.
Jean De La Bruyere
#43. To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.
Marcus Aurelius
#44. The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.
John Dewey
#45. The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth.
Soren Kierkegaard
#46. The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno
#48. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
C.S. Lewis
#49. The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.
Laozi
#50. Thus the Stoics arrive at their main thesis. Virtue alone is admirable, virtue is absolutely self-sufficient; the good man needs no help from circumstances, neither sickness nor adversity can harm him; he is a king, a god among men.
Marcus Aurelius
#51. It is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical.
Seneca.
#52. Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.
Richard Jefferies
#53. The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
Plato
#54. Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
Marcus Aurelius
#55. In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.
Aristotle.
#56. The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.
Joseph Roth
#57. The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Edward Young
#58. In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.
Laozi
#59. Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
Edward Young
#60. 25. Try how the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who is satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his own just acts and benevolent disposition.
Marcus Aurelius
#61. The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
Aristotle.
#62. Why, could the good man not impose his will, control his wife? asked Mrs. Carew, who always made much of masculine authority in her talk with friends but ruled the roost at home.
Leonard Tourney
#63. ... Language shows a tendency for the words "good" and "stupid" to come [close] together... a hint of contempt... within these term[s]... [dictating that] the good man must always be unthreatening.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.
Jean Reno
#65. The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.
Muhammad
#66. A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#67. Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
Aristotle.
#68. I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.
Rachel Cohn
#69. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.
Aleister Crowley
#70. True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
Lester B. Pearson
#71. It's morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby's born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song
Jon Bon Jovi
#72. 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
#73. One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It's my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.
Marcel Marceau
#74. The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!
Francis Quarles
#75. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#76. I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
Josef Albers
#77. Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.
Laurie R. King
#78. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.
Camille Paglia
#79. I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mother and explains in Hindi that cobras make very good eating.
Libba Bray
#80. A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Richard Steele
#81. I wait for his regret, his guilt, but it does not come. He is a man who always sees the good in things. And in his mind, love is always good.
Priya Parmar
#82. My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation.
Charlaine Harris
#83. But he found him as he had seen him six weeks earlier, that is to say calm, firm and full of the distant good manners that make up the most impenetrable of barriers separating a well-bred man from one of the people.
Alexandre Dumas
#84. I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.
Hans Fritzsche
#85. Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.
Oliver Goldsmith
#86. Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
Isaac Newton
#87. A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H.L. Mencken
#88. Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.
John DiMaggio
#89. Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.
Dalai Lama
#90. PRO13.22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Anonymous
#91. When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.
Patti Page
#92. I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want to have a good time.
John Leguizamo
#93. If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by
Hanshan
#94. Oh God, that hurts," she whimpered.
"What hurts?" Kye asked, sounding concerned.
"The invisible man pounding spikes into my head."
"That doesn't sound good. Maybe you should take out an invisible Taser gun and zap the son of a bitch.
Julie James
#95. The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
Sitting Bull
#96. I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.
Gregor Golob
#97. The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.
Luke Myer
#98. My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.
Donald Trump
#99. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.
Eugene B. Sledge
#100. War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
