Good Man Quotes
654 Good Man quotes by 476 unique authors
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Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful…
— John Steinbeck
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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your…
— Charles Lamb
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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.
— Mark Twain
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Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.
— Martin Luther
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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…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
— Confucius
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When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt.…
— Daniel Pearce
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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is…
— Gautama Buddha
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
— Sallust
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No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
— Plato
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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…
— Gautama Buddha
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
— Socrates
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Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live…
— P. M. Forni
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
— Sophocles
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Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on…
— Unknown Author
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
— Plato
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Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.
— Unknown Author
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or…
— Socrates
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
— Sophocles
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Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.
— Jack Donovan
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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
— Sophocles
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It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
— Publilius Syrus
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.
— Socrates
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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…
— Walter Lippmann
Who Wrote These Good Man Quotes
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