The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite… — Dagobert D. Runes Copy Share Image
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god,… — Alfred Einstein Copy Share Image
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best;… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking… — Susanna White Copy Share Image
Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Who would have such a man around him as John Bunyan in his time? He, a Bedford tinker, couldn’t get inside one… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“The Bible takes a stand on every major issue we deal with today from abortion, gay marriage, self-defense, alcohol, sex, private property… — Mark Cahill Copy Share Image
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
“Hamilton, the most brilliant American statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time, was of course easily… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem? — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever! — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
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