Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
A coach - any coach, not just a national team coach - should try to be exemplary. And a national team manager even more so.
I think [John Larroquette] did a great job. I really do. And he's so wonderful and generous to work with.
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.
A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
You can only lead by example.
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.
There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.
To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.
Rahul is the kind of person who young cricketers can look up to; not only because of his success but also because of the way he conducts himself.
It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today?
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.
I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.
The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion.
