Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I grew up with great mentors in my life who helped me become the singer I am today. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
“We feed on genius. . . . Great men exist that there may be greater men.” — Susan Banfield Copy Share Image
Great women, in partnership with great men, will continue to take us forward. — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and… — JC Marino Copy Share Image
Great men are just ordinary men, who wont quit! Dont quit on Gods plan & purpose for your life! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of… — Joseph Rickaby Copy Share Image
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
“The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?"… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“So let's say you marry this girl. All right, you can still be a great man. Look at all the great men… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him),… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“My Dear Fellow Subjects, I have recently learned a Truth that I wish to share with you: A man can be powerful,… — Katharine Ashe Copy Share Image
“. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo,… — Christopher Peter Grey Copy Share Image
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular. — George Packer Copy Share Image
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image