Advantage Quote by Alanis Morissette

“good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring…

— H.H. Fowler

“The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man…

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and…

— Michel de Montaigne

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

— George Santayana

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for…

— Charles Dickens

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really…

— Aeschylus

A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on…

— William Feather

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

— Epictetus

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected…

— Bertrand Russell