Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries…

— Zachary Quinto

Football is a team sport. I'm proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn't have achieved any…

— Peter Schmeichel

My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

— John S. Hall

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

— Edgar Allan Poe

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

— James Weldon Johnson

“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it…

— Adam Smith

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense…

— Martin Buber

A great man isn't the one who can show all his greatness, but great man is the one who can show his Humility upon…

— Anonymous

“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital…

— Brandon Sanderson

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

— Henry Steele Commager

“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be…

— Miguel Cervantes

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We’re not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there’d be a great many things in it we can’t…

— Sylvain Neuvel

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

— C. S. Lewis