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
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 measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Anonymous 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
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
... 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
There's just nothing to me so invaluable in my business, but in many businesses, as great mentors. — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
One of the major challenges for modern large-scale organizations - it's vital to find ways to mobilize the collective brainpower of people… — Yves Doz Copy Share Image
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Had opened a gallery I already had strong connections with New York, because I was taking work on consignment from New York… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“It is in Keats that the artistic spirit of this century first found its absolute incarnation. And these pre-Raphaelites, what were they?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
“The roiling, restless fog is like chaos before a storm, swirling streaks resembling wintry clouds. Serpents lurking there can spread its pestilence,… — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...my awakening life. I am awake in the present. The present is today. Today is a great gift.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men. — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the… — John Moody Copy Share Image
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of… — C. V. Wedgwood 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
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions. — Arthur Desmond Copy Share Image
“Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had” — Michelle Cohen Corasanti Copy Share Image
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
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