Lao Tzu Quotes

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

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.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

I just want to be a good man.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it's better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.