“... One that would have the fruit must climb the tree... Great hopes make great men... Tis skill, not strength, that governs… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea… — Giacomo Leopardi 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
It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
“My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies… — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
“I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Let us recognize this one thing: burden is the secret of prayer. If a person does not feel within him burden to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
