“Great men are forged in fire. 'Tis the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Angels also often want to contribute more than money to a young company. Angels have the experience, and inclination, to be great… — Basil Peters Copy Share Image
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls… — Doc Rivers Copy Share Image
“Most of the great men who converted their time to products although late are still making more impact in the world today… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Lincoln could easily have used the excuse of Seward’s incapacity to avoid consulting him at all. But that was not his way.… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
My father was a great mentor to me and is someone I admire and look up to. However, it was my mum… — Stuart Broad Copy Share Image
There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
“A man that is of Copernicus ’ Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlightn’d by the… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
“For who could better describe the eye than God, Who made it? But as it is clearer than the day that God… — Georg Joachim Rheticus Copy Share Image
Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
“Dodrupchen writes: Whenever problems come to us from beings or inanimate objects, if our mind gets used to perceiving only the suffering… — Tulku Thondup Copy Share Image
I grab Sarah’s hand. “You are more than that. I need you here with me. You’re pretty much the only thing keeping… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Kant's old hat; the autographs of great men; these things are gaped at with interest and awe by many who have never… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
