No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“What makes a man great is all the good things he left behind and as for Atatürk, thinking generations and questioning minds… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“I myself, to be sure - I have as yet seen no great man. That which is great, the acutest eye is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems.… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The man who is to be great is the one who can be the most solitary, the most hidden, the most deviant,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“He was ever a strong man, which is almost the same, times, as to say a man with little time for kindness.… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
