Good Man Quotes
654 Good Man quotes by 476 unique authors
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts…
— Alberto Manguel
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad.…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.
— Dick Gephardt
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
— Maxim Gorky
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I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill,…
— Kevin Costner
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
— John Dewey
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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…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
— Euripides
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
— Euripides
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I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good…
— Kevin James
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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…
— William James
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
— William James
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man.…
— Elton John
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to…
— Magic Johnson
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
— Ben Jonson
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Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to…
— Arthur Keith
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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…
— Anna Kendrick
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a…
— Max Lucado
Who Wrote These Good Man Quotes
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