Michael W. Smith Quotes

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

As an adult, I've always tried to be a good person my whole life, so I've made good friends, and I've always built great relationships and been friendly with people. I always think what you do to others will come to you, so that's how I treat people.

I always felt the true test of a man's character is how he treats people he can't use.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

Being a good person and fair person is very important in life, I think.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.

To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.