“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 great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland. — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses. — Euripides Copy Share Image
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
I know I've had many great mentors and role models and guys to look up to; guys I've learned a lot from… — Carson Palmer Copy Share Image
“This one thing is great mentoring. Great mentors understand what the students are seeking, what they deeply and completely want, and how… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“It’s not respect but fear that motivates a man; that’s how empires are built and revolutions begin. It is the secret of… — Michael Dobbs Copy Share Image
Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object… — Plato Copy Share Image
A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as successful because I've worked on only a handful of films. The way I look at it, if… — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
“Melanie’s father had been an Army colonel who instilled in her a sense of duty as well as a sense of individuality.… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image