William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded,… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“An idea is not made great merely because great men die in defense of it.” — Melissa McPhail Copy Share Image
“I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental… — Ernst Jünger 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
Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the… — Saad Hariri Copy Share Image
What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people? — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“...I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if… — John Maxwell 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
