Good Man Quotes - Page 34

• I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and a proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the non-plused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Men, Keys

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 10, 2011

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• Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Hate, Men

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• It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Catholic, Morality

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• Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

  Earl Weaver

  Baseball, Way, Helping

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

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Men, Excess

  Alexander Hamilton (1973). “Papers”

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• For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Men, History, Evil

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• There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Differences

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

  John Adams

  Education, Inspirational Life, Men

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• Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Quality, Silent

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• I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

  Chris Adrian

  Men, Want, Reason

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• A good man fights for himself. A great man fights for everyone else

  Philip DeFranco

  Fighting, Men, Great Men

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Talking

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.137, Modern Library

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• As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

  Peter Shilton

  People, Needs, Goalkeepers

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• John F. Kennedy says: 'Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.' I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don't leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower, Men, Names

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• If you have the power to resurrect the dead man, firstly, be sure that he is a good man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Dead Man, Ifs

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• If you are afraid of the sunlight, you ain't a good man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Sunlight, Ifs

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

  Steve Goodier

  Heart, Men, Jesus Christ

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• The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Men, Office, States

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• My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• My family would soon tell me if I was getting above my station. I love what I do, I love my job, but I also like to go home and lead a normal life. ... I like to go to the gym, go shopping and do normal things, and it's totally unnecessary to not value people working around you. It's down to good manners, really.

  Kerry Ellis

  Jobs, Home, Shopping

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• Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Kings, Men, Desire

  "On Self-Sufficiency". Book by Teles of Megara, fragment 2,

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• When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Mean, People, Mind

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• Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

  Peter Brimelow

  Wise, Clever, Men

  Peter Brimelow (1988). “The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited”, Key Porter Books, [1988]

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• The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

  Aristotle

  War, Men, Light

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• A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Self, Essence

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