Good Quotes

The good man is the friend of all living things.

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

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.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

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.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

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

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

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

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

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

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

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

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 have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

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

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

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

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.