It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a… — Maya Angelou 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
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems.… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great… — Dabo Swinney Copy Share Image
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“All great men had to endure hard times and overcome challenging circumstances.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I certainly am not alone in the world with this demand; I am in the best of company. Let it be said… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many… — Richard Harris Barham Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image