Good Man Quotes

This collection of good man quotes will give you something to think about. There are so many qualities that go into making a man good.

A good man is kind and caring, loves his family and friends, is honest and fair, and treats everyone with respect and dignity. A good man also knows when to stand up for what he believes in—even if it means making sacrifices or going against the tide.

Here are some quotes to provide you with various perspectives on what constitutes a good man.

Best Good Man Quotes

1.) Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius

2.) The mark of a real man is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman.
C. JoyBell C.

3.) It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

4.) Men are not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

5.) As a general rule, it pays to be confident, helpful, and nice.
Colin Wright

6.) Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life but that he has surmounted them.
Patrick Henry

7.) A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

8.) Being a ‘good man’ is something you do, not something you are.
Luvvie Ajayi

9.) Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris

10.) People often tell me I could be a great man. I’d rather be a good man.
John F. Kennedy Jr.

11.) The first step to being a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else (is) carrying.
Mehmet Murat ildan

Funny Good Man Quotations

12.) It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
Plutarch

13.) Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic: you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
Jerry Seinfeld

14.) A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky

15.) I’m a guy. Since when do we get anything right the first time?
Will Smith

16.) Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde

17.) Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
John Keegan

18.) Man has will, but woman has her way.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

19.) Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

20.) You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
John Wayne

21.) One good man, one good man, it ain’t much – it’s only everything.
Deborah Kerr

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Inspirational Sayings About Good Men

22.) A man may conquer a million men in battle, but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
Buddha

23.) If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

24.) A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.
Robert Southey

25.) There is nothing wrong with being afraid – but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.
Bobby Darin

26.) In the face of inhumanity, a good man reacts, but a great one acts.
James Rollins

27.) Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

28.) Your life will become better by making other lives better.
Will Smith

29.) Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your powers, you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

30.) The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet keep looking. Don’t Settle.
Steve Jobs

31.) The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
Walter Scott

Short Good Man Quotes

32.) The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi

33.) Living or dead, to a good man, there can come no evil.
Socrates

34.) A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
Marcus Aurelius

35.) Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller

36.) It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
Publilius Syrus

37.) A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
John Wayne

38.) A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

39.) Life is strange. Every so often, a good man wins.
Frank Dane

40.) When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Anthony Burgess

41.) Most important is be a good man.
Pele

42.) It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
Dixie Carter

43.) It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge

Motivational Good Man Quotes

44.) He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell

45.) Life’s not about hard of a hit you can give….it’s about how many you can take and still keep moving forward.
Sylvester Stallone

46.) No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.) The greater the success, the more it was due to one thing: focus.
Shane Parrish

48.) A man should be able to hear and bear the worst that could be said of him.
Saul Bellow

49.) Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

50.) A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy

51.) If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

52.) The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

53.) If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, ‘I awake to do the work of a man.’
Marcus Aurelius

54.) Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good Man Quotes for Self-Improvement

55.) You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Froude

56.) The most persevering becomes the most talented.
Maxime Lagacé

57.) Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

58.) Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire

59.) A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust

60.) Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

61.) Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

62.) Try not to become a man of success but rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

63.) To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.
Anatole France

64.) The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey

Religious Good Man Quotes

65.) The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.
Suzanne Curchod

66.) You should think in such a way that everybody could look into your soul and see what is transpiring there.
Seneca

67.) Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee

68.) Though in the order of nature, angels rank above men, yet, by the scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
Saint Augustine

69.) A good man’s prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven’s height, and bring a blessing down.
Joanna Baillie

Famous Good Man Quotes

70.) The way of a superior man is three-fold: virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
Confucius

71.) Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso

72.) The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley

73.) It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
Frederick William Robertson

74.) The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.
Confucius

75.) The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

76.) The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

77.) You have to have a bunch of dimensions of yourself. You have to be able to adapt in this world. And you can’t be a nice guy living in a world of savages.
Mike Tyson

78.) If a man’s mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
Buddha

Good Man Quotes About Life

79.) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson

80.) Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
Theodore Roosevelt

81.) Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli

82.) A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust

83.) The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
Brandon Sanderson

84.) There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’ If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.
Sam Keen

85.) I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin

86.) He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest.
E. Urner Goodman

87.) The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine

88.) To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.
Burl Ives

Good Man Quotes About Family

89.) A gentleman will open doors, pull out chairs, and carry things. Not because she’s helpless or unable but because he wants to show her that she is valuable and worthy of respect.
Charles J. Orlando

90.) It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Sophocles

91.) Work hard, be honest, help people, never give up, love your fellow man and woman, give back to society, and don’t ever discriminate.
Jesse White

92.) You spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Don Vito Corleone

93.) A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
Joseph Hall

94.) A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
Marcus Aurelius

95.) Real men don’t dance to other people’s tunes; instead, they play for others to dance.
Michael Bassey Johnson

96.) You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
Paul McCartney

97.) A good man will want you to shine. He wants you to be your amazing self. A good man loves to show off his happy, intelligent, amazing, and powerful woman.
Anastasia Netri

Man Versus Himself Quotations

98.) The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci

99.) Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.
Seneca the Younger

100.) Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

101.) The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
Will Rogers

102.) The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Steven Wright

By Michael O’Halloran

Michael is the co-founder of ListCaboodle.