Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem? — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The Great men of history spoke the truth for what it is not how they wished it to be. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God. — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was… — Sparky Anderson Copy Share Image
A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts. — Bhagat Puran Singh Copy Share Image
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?"… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be… — Milton Friedman 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
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
“When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful… — Charles Fox Copy Share Image
Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems,… — Alan Coren 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
