Socrates Quotes

For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

Socrates

• Gentleman
• Goodness
• Cause
• Claim
• Good Man

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• I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Work
  • Moment
  • Goodness

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Broken
  • Cause
  • Themselves

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Goal
  • Being
  • Gentleman

• Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Loved
  • Gentleman

• When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Experience

• I was always the Southern gentleman.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Try
  • Goodness

• I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Great
  • Saint
  • Claim

• Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Country
  • Community
  • Balance

• The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Death
  • Woman
  • Gentleman

• I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Perfection
  • Goodness
  • Blessings

• The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Taken

• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sun
  • Shadow
  • Goodness

• My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Man
  • Gentleman

• The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Opportunity
  • Training
  • Gentleman

• The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Experience
  • Gentleman

• Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Men
  • Chance
  • Golf

• Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me-- Have stooped my neck under your injuries And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Leaving

• I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Husband
  • Enjoy

• The tiny madman in his padded cell.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Baby
  • Cells
  • Madmen

• For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

  

  Socrates
  • Gentleman
  • Goodness
  • Cause