Been Quote by Auberon Herbert

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

— Horace Bushnell

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and…

— John Dewey

Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

— William Ellery Channing

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

— Edmund Burke

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been…

— Herman Melville

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

— Thomas Cranmer

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great…

— Frederick Winslow Taylor

It is within the power of every man to become great.

— Wallace D. Wattles

There is always room for the man of force.

— Benjamin Franklin