“All of the statues of all the great men will, with time and wind and water, be consumed.” — Michael Gray Calvert Copy Share Image
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.” — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great… — Lucian Copy Share Image
Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within;… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else,… — Georges F. Doriot Copy Share Image
I don't believe in stereotypes, I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis. The measure of a truly great man… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“It behoves us always to remember that in physics it has taken great men to discover simple things. . . . How far even then… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization.… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The first week of school they spotted him using a tortoise-shell cigarette holder. When he'd overheard some of the boys whispering that… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“a man named Plough Jogger spoke his mind: I have been greatly abused, have been obliged to do more than my part… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Some kings of England could not read or write; some died of illness which would keep us in bed only for a… — P.J. Sidey Copy Share Image
Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did… — Earl Hancock Ellis Copy Share Image
The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The heights that great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flights; but they, while their companions slept, toiled upwards… — Longfellow Copy Share Image
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to… — S.C. Barrus Copy Share Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“All great men face challenges in the pursuit of their goals. However, the challenges did not deter them for pushing forward and… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great… — Leonard J. V. Compagno Copy Share Image
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The sight of every man rising to the occasion generated a wave of pure love in me. A good leader is supposed… — Sean Parnell Copy Share Image
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