Good Man Quotes - Page 37

• When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

  James Montgomery

  Men, Yield, Immortality

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1829). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One Volume”

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

  Christopher Morley

  Teacher, Unhappy, Manners

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Speak, Ill

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Stones, Persons

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• Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Doors, Manners, Good Manners

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• A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

  Robert Townsend

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

  Cindy McCain

  Wise, Husband, Men

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• All good management is the expression of one great idea

  Robert Heller

  Business, Expression, Ideas

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• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Country, Character

  "Letters".

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• It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

  William Alexander Percy

  Nice, Important, World

  William Alexander Percy (1973). “Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son”, p.286, LSU Press

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

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Titles, Ancestry

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.178

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• A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.

  Confucius

  Men, Knowing, Worry

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• A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

  Confucius

  Men, Constancy, Mines

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.

  Alice Stone Blackwell

  Struggle, Thinking, Agency

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• A good man never dies.

  Callimachus

  Men, Dies

  Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, Theognis, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.421, London : H.G. Bohn

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• The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give appropriate orders to his subordinates to carry out his plans... A good modern manager is like a good coach who leads and encourages his team in never-ending quality improvement.

  George E. P. Box

  Team, Order, Ideas

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• Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.

  Sam Keen

  Sex, Nice, Struggle

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• Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Office, Faithful, Belief

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• Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man.

  Colleen Hoover

  Spiritual, Men, Years

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Men, Heaven

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• If we believe [Obama] to be a good man who would never kill noncombatants in a cafe in Houston, sitting out in a sidewalk cafe, smoking - oh, that's right you're not allowed to smoke cigarettes anymore.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Men, Smoking

  "The 10 Best Lines From Rand Paul's Incredible Filibuster On Civil Liberties" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. March 06, 2013.

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• When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Evil, Bombs

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• There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Voice, Wish

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• A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Management

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• Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

  Bill Kelly

  People, Way, Table Manners

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