It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.” — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
“Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, “There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished… — Jim Bouton Copy Share Image
The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Have you seen them…..because I saw them come looking for you, Mercy is their leader while Favour is the also there, this… — Ogunyombo Oluwaseun David Copy Share Image
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“In the same way it may be said that a man endowed with great mental gifts leads, apart from the individual life… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
“a wise man should always enter those paths trodden by great men, and imitate those who have been most excellent, so that… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of… — B R Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great men are ordinary men with an extraordinary amount of determination. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God. — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
