It doesn't take great men to do things, but it is doing…

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

— John F. Kennedy

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

— Phillips Brooks

“Some men are great, and some men have greatness thrust upon them. Isn't that so Jim?”

— Julia from Under the Dome

“The great men. The great men are those who embody the marriage between heaven and hell, hard and soft, strength and vulnerability, Who do…

— VD

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

— Rodney Dangerfield

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Character and ideals are catching. When you associate with men who aspire to the highest and best, you expose yourself to the qualities that…

— Carolyn Coats

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

— James Cash Penney

“Some men see things as they are, and say, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were, and say, ‘Why not?’” —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW”

— Anthony Robbins

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

— Joshua Chamberlain

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

— Thomas Hobbes

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

— Anonymous

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

— Albert Camus