Adversity Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

— Marshall Field

The good man is the friend of all living things.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the…

— Confucius

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

— Sallust

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

— John Dewey

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each…

— Sophocles

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great…

— George Bernard Shaw

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

— William Hazlitt

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may…

— Blaise Pascal

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases,…

— Criss Jami