A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well. — Debra Stephenson Copy Share Image
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
I worked with Steve Jobs on Monsters Inc. He was a great man. There is a big tear in Mike Wazowski's eye. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
“We are not a great manufacturing company that develops people, we are a great manufacturing company BECAUSE we develop people.” — Jay Hodge Copy Share Image
Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great… — Lucian Copy Share Image
Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Some girls have a great man, Some girls live there life with all smiles, Some girls think nothing is going to bring… — Kevin Mccarty Copy Share Image
Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I've been surprised by how many of you actually seem to believe that what you have is perfection. [...] A great many… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“... nothing is easier than to distance ourselves from great figures, whether through a negative interpretation or through idealization. Denigration and idealization… — Myron Sharaf Copy Share Image
“It was a good thing she was wearing her mother's pearls. With those clasping her neck, she felt as if she could… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“The search for better, for more competent men, from the presidents of our great companies down to our household servants, was never… — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
“These days, there seems to be nowhere left to explore. Victims of their very success, the explorers now, pretty much, stay home.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Happy anniversary Mom and Dad. Even through those occasional times when we didn't get along, I could still that tell your love… — Jin Copy Share Image
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image