African american Quote by Booker T. Washington

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it…

— Booker T. Washington

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Little things are great to little men.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

— Walter Savage Landor

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

— Mencius

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of…

— Theodore Parker

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into…

— John Steinbeck

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge…

— Marcus Aurelius

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There…

— Thomas Carlyle

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that…

— Jean Anouilh

To little men, gods send little things.

— Callimachus