Good Man Quotes - Page 3

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

A good man always knows his limitations.

Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

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

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

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

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

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.