Good Man Quotations

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

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

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

It doesn’t matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you,

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.

I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

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.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

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

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

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

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

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

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.

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

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

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.

Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

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.

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.

I will say, just being here, God is good, man...

Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

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

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot....

Good manners require space and time.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

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

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.