Good Man Quotes - Page 32

• There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Heart, Men, Color

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.21, Taylor Trade Publications

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• A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

  Edward Higgins White

  Life, Men, Never Quit

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• Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.

  William Shenstone

  Purpose, Use, Coins

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.137

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• The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Rude, Sage, Bears

  Solomon ben Judah Ibn Gabirol, Benjamin Henry Ascher (1859). “A Choice of Pearls: Embracing a Collection of the Most Genuine Ethical Sentences, Maxims and Salutary Reflections”, p.145

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• What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Teacher, Art, Humble

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• We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Angel, Men, Busy

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• No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Evil, Done

  Theodore Roosevelt (1894). “From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 - - v. 2. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783”, U of Nebraska Press

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• Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Men, Mankind

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

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• One of the commonest causes of failure in Christian life is found in the attempt to follow some good man whom we greatly admire. No man and no woman, no matter how good, can be safely followed. If we follow any man or woman, we are bound to go astray. There has been but one absolutely perfect Man on this earth-the Man Christ Jesus. If we try to follow any other man we are surer to imitate his faults than his excellencies. Look to Jesus and Jesus only as your Guide.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.120, Christian Publishing House

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• I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

  Cub Swanson

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• Now is the time for all good men to come to.

  Walt Kelly

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Looks, Looking Good

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• Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.

  Margo Kingston

  Men, Leader, Bucks

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• Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

  Diogenes

  Boys, Men, Saws

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal.

  Jeff Cooper

  Military, War, Men

  "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 1, No. 6, September 1993.

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• Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Men, Soul, Deeds

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

  Franz Boas

  Ethical Standards, Way, Modesty

  Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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

  Benjamin Graham

  Average, Management, Produce

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Evil

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 10, April 12, 1990.

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• I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

  G. H. Hardy

  Example, Waste, Mathematics

  "Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work". Book by G. H. Hardy, 1940.

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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• All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

  David Weber

  Children, Men, Evil

  David Weber (2008). “Off Armageddon Reef”, p.250, Macmillan

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• There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Men, People, President

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• We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Song, Stars, Heart

  'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'

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• I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Doors, Snow, Effort

  George Leigh Mallory's diary entry (May 27, 1924) as quoted in James Ramsey Ullman "Kingdom of Adventure: Everest" (p. 124), 1947.

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