The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. — Hermann Graf Keyserling Copy Share Image
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds;… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
“All the prophets, including Jesus, are dead but their names are still so fresh in our minds. Buddha, Socrates, etc. were also… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“Great men were always average men, that summoned the courage, honor and will to do extraordinary things that would change the world.… — Tonny Brown Copy Share Image
I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Like all men endowed with great mental mobility, I have an irrevocable, organic love of settledness. I abhor new ways of life… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
“The great men. The great men are those who embody the marriage between heaven and hell, hard and soft, strength and vulnerability,… — VD Copy Share Image
Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious… — Rudolf Dreikurs Copy Share Image
The Church of England hasn't often produced great men in modern times. But I have long believed that George Bell, Bishop of… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
