Good Man Quotes - Page 27

• Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

  John Milton

  Peace, Writing, Learning

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Military, Real, Men

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• Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Pride, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (1918). “State Papers and Addresses”

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• A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Change, Business, Men

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1909). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

  Virginia Woolf

  Kings, Character, Cat

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• Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

  Wes Fesler

  Men, Accountability, Bounds

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• 'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

  Spark Matsunaga

  Greatness, Men, Goodness

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Men, Gambling

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• The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Doe, Materials

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.185, Verso

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• Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

  Paul Hawken

  Art, Business, Top Management

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed....And if I am not a good man, I have no just right in this Church to a wife or wives, or the power to propagate my species. What then should be done with me? Make a eunuch of me, and stop my propagation.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Men, Wife, Church

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• Good men prefer to be accountable.

  Michael Edwardes

  Responsibility, Men, Accountability

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• The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Incredibles, Very Good

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• When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he's coming at me with a wet dish towel.

  Daniel Pearce

  Brother, Men, Two

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• If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

  Jeff Garlin

  Maniacs, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Jeff Greene". "Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Wire. Season 1", (2000– ).

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• When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Men, Evil, Moral

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• Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, True Or False, Christianity

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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• My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

  Leona Lewis

  Wise, Children, Dad

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

  Tracy McMillan

  Self Esteem, Boys, Men

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• Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Men, Support

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• There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Survivor, Benefits

  "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments".

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• When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

  Euripides

  Character, Men, Doe

  "Temenidae". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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• "If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Winning, Heaven, Succeed

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.332, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Men, Waiting

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• Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

  Bonnie Tyler

  Wise, Fighting, Men

  Song: Holding Out for a Hero, 1986

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