The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements. — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man. — John F. Kennedy Jr Copy Share Image
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the… — John Moody 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
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
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be and glory… — Bilal Zahoor Copy Share Image
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“In historical events great men - so-called - are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have… — Emmeline Pankhurst 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
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
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
I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
“It is in Keats that the artistic spirit of this century first found its absolute incarnation. And these pre-Raphaelites, what were they?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
