Crafts Quote by Frederick Scott Oliver

An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show,…

— John Adams

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be…

— Plato

He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put…

— John Jortin

Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him).…

— Zhuangzi

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

— Confucius

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

— Cleopatra

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

— W. H. Auden

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do…

— Theodore Roosevelt

His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any…

— Thomas Jefferson

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that…

— Aristotle

He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.

— Max Muller

“Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was…

— Thomas Hardy