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Quotes About Good

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.
~ James Kavanaugh
...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
~ Aristotle
The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
~ Bion of Borysthenes
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
~ William Cowper
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
~ William Shakespeare
Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
~ John Galliano
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
~ Joseph Addison
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
~ Joseph Addison
Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?
~ Leonid Andreyev
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
~ Charles Bukowski
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
~ Edward Young
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
~ Euripides
Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
~ Frank Dane
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
For a good man fame is always a problem.
~ Graham Greene
Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.
~ Lucullus
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).
~ Max Stirner
Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
~ Mitch Albom
The man who has led a good life will find many allies.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
~ Oscar Wilde
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
~ Aristophanes