Biographies Quote by Anonymous

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to…

— Candice Millard

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

— Janusz Korczak

“‎"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a…

— Charles Kingsley

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

— Thomas Carlyle

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

— Yip Harburg

“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are…

— Samuel Smiles

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

— Thomas Carlyle

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“All great men had to endure hard times and overcome challenging circumstances.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“A most remarkable man; the sort of man I wish to be , of whom it might someday be said, that he was much…

— Brian Doyle