Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Angels also often want to contribute more than money to a young company. Angels have the experience, and inclination, to be great… — Basil Peters Copy Share Image
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have never had any issues with falling in love, dating, sustaining long-term relationships, or attracting great men in my life, who… — Kenya Moore Copy Share Image
Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today.… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men!… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Nor have the lives of great men been exciting except at a few great moments. Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A true leader is the one who leaves memorable footprints of nobility. A leader who is decisive enough and have all the… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful… — Charles Fox Copy Share Image
Everyman has a God-given talent for it is inborn and its a very powerful gift that raises a man far above his… — Samule Kermis Copy Share Image
People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and… — Harry Hamlin Copy Share Image
I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes. — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
“The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and… — Derrick Henry Copy Share Image
Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements. — Abraham Myerson 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
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against -… — Dinah Shore Copy Share Image
What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams Copy Share Image
