“Great men don't strive for greatness, they simply do great works.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
“If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great… — Dabo Swinney Copy Share Image
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor. — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that… — Marg Helgenberger Copy Share Image
He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass. As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“I had no idea what to say to this. I had been nurtured in the U.S. school system on a steady diet… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems,… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
“When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful… — Charles Fox Copy Share Image
“Nor have the lives of great men been exciting except at a few great moments. Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A true leader is the one who leaves memorable footprints of nobility. A leader who is decisive enough and have all the… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Once great men created fortunes; today a great system creates fortunate men.” — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
He who is neither afraid of the wolves nor hurts the lambs, He is called a great man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image