“Some men are great, and some men have greatness thrust upon them. Isn't that so Jim?” — Julia from Under the Dome Copy Share Image
“I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man.” — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man" — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. — Henry James 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
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms. — Jean Tinguely 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
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great. — Michel de Montaigne 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
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“These great men had no reciprocal appreciation the one for the other. Sumner was honest in the belief that Grant knew nothing… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting… — William James Copy Share Image
Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today.… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men!… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this, I said to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal quality of man. For by it we abolished a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“landmarks were “a little shabby.” Half the gilding was gone from the dome of Les Invalides, where Napoleon was buried. The same… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“It doesn't take great men to do things, but it is doing things that makes men great.” — Arnold Glasgow Copy Share Image
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“An idea is not made great merely because great men die in defense of it.” — Melissa McPhail Copy Share Image
