“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.” — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
“Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, “There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished… — Jim Bouton Copy Share Image
I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Study and discipline are the prerequisite to any form of accomplishment. Unfortunately however, studying is much like paying taxes for most of… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so… — W.K. Marriott Copy Share Image
Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
Georg Hegel viewed the "great men" as instruments of something far greater. Hegel believes that an individual can indeed embody the zeitgeist… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding,… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems,… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
“She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“CHAPTER VI Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability LET no one be surprised if, in speaking… — Nicolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Increase. Being fruitful is a good and necessary start, but it should grow into the next phase, increase. Once again, even though… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image