Good Man Quotes - Page 12

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

Good men must be affectionate men.

If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.