#a good man

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

#assuming #awful #being #decent #even

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

#action #author #being #contemplation #good

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune. ↗

— Sophocles

#good #good man #help #man #misfortune

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#about #feeling #good #good man #guy

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. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#advocacy #amongst #any #doctrines #feel

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#always #back #been #give #god

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#call #example #five #for example #good

Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#good #good man #improve #india #man

You was a good man, and did good things. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#did #good #good man #good things #man

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. ↗

— George McGovern

#good #good man #man #orator #really