Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“This generation does not understand the wealth of time. No wonder there are only a few superstars and great men emerging from… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his… — Alfred Armand Montapert 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
We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great… — Paul Goodman 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
Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
“In those days, even in European countries, death had a solemn social importance. It was not regarded as a moment when certain… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It's an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have… — Beth Ann Fennelly Copy Share Image
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose,… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God. — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
“Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
