Failing Quote by Anna Seward

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study.…

— Horace Mann

Let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great; that it lies within human ability to overcome…

— Lyndon Baines Johnson

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into…

— Samuel Johnson

“Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!”

— W.O. Makora

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

— Hugh Blair

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

— Iris Origo

“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“those content to serve mediocre employers will never know – the satisfaction of being able to say with some reason that one’s efforts, in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their…

— Brian Tracy

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of…

— Samuel Johnson

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

— Thomas Carlyle

With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

— Ram Charan