“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know… — Wild Bill Hickok Copy Share Image
Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements." — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences. — Horace Copy Share Image
Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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
“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
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
Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great… — Samuel Johnson 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
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image