Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs'… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ...… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows… — Karen White Copy Share Image
Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“There are, on the other hand, very great men, very holy men, very pure men in every way, whose knowledge is wide… — G. de Purucker Copy Share Image
“Who that has ever visited the borders of this classic sea, has not felt at the first sight of its waters a… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
“DO! Don’t be concerned about what you are doing – do it so wholeheartedly that the very doing becomes a bliss. And… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“ Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Kant's old hat; the autographs of great men; these things are gaped at with interest and awe by many who have never… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes — Andre Gide 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
Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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