I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Great men are forged in fire. 'Tis the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. — Channing Pollock Copy Share Image
The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Dwarfs can often do the work of giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power of great mental concentration.” — Theron Q. Dumont Copy Share Image
Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at… — Carleton Young Copy Share Image
Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“Here is the lesson: Great men and women of God are not exempt from hurt and offense. Instead, enduring the wounds of… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's… — Lenny Dykstra Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on… — Karl Marx 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
“CHAPTER VI Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability LET no one be surprised if, in speaking… — Nicolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard,… — George Eliot 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
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
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