Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men. — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is… — Frederic William Farrar 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
The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against -… — Dinah Shore Copy Share Image
You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know… — Joseph Hall 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
“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“DO! Don’t be concerned about what you are doing – do it so wholeheartedly that the very doing becomes a bliss. And… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
