Good Man Quotes - Page 20

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

In the midst of this enormous economic crisis, I think Canada has shown itself to be a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we always - haven't always been here in the United States.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.