Quotes About Good

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

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

we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration.

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

History is littered with dead good men

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.