“The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great… — Leonard J. V. Compagno Copy Share Image
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The sight of every man rising to the occasion generated a wave of pure love in me. A good leader is supposed… — Sean Parnell Copy Share Image
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“When great men die in the race of life, they continue to live because the world can still benefit from their products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage. I would not have raised you to be… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena… — Bill James Copy Share Image
You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“ A Psalm of Life Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I have known a great many politicians who have not managed to stay in power for 16 years. I have nevertheless already… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who… — Scott Sauls Copy Share Image
“Greatness is something which can be regarded in a number of ways,” he said. “It is, of course, the apotheosis, man raised… — James Salter Copy Share Image
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image