Great men Quote by Bertrand Russell

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort…

— Bertrand Russell

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust

“Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives…

— Og Mandino

“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,…

— Frederick Douglass

“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.”

— John C. Maxwell

“There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.”

— Remy de Gourmont

“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

“there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent…

— Charles Dickens

“‎"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