Appeals Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions

— Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Man is truly great when he can act from his passions

— Benjamin Disraeli

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining,…

— Peter Bayne

Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a…

— Olaf Stapledon

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

— George Santayana

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

— Albert Camus

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense…

— Martin Buber

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this…

— Arthur Helps

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

— Edmund Burke

A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else,…

— Marcus Aurelius