Alexander Volkanovski Quotes

When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.

Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

Nice guys finish last

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody's spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it's also even more important to be a good person, so that's what I learned.

My parents were fairly laid-back, but there were certain things about which they were very strict. My brother and I were told never to turn away a person in need. And it didn't matter what we thought of their motives, whether they were truly in need or not.

I feel like sometimes I'm in a position to really do some good, so I try to do that.

Someone had to lend me a hand or two to pull me forward. I feel it's my duty to make sure I do the same.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

As a captain, I have to be courageous but I also want to be nice off the pitch.

I have been told in the past that's my downfall but I'd rather be too nice to be honest. I set out in cricket to make friends. I'd rather people say they enjoyed playing with him and he's a good guy, not he's a good player but a bit of a so and so.

I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.

It's a universal desire to love and to be loved and, despite trying circumstances, to still fight for the good.

I always say in my tweets, don't do something for credit. Do it because it's the right thing to do.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

I don't do things to be rewarded. I help people because it's the right thing to do.