Great Man Quotes

273 quotes by 200 authors

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and… — Honore de Balzac
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… — James Buchan
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. — Jim Carrey
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. — B R Ambedkar
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... — William Cowper
There was never a great man who had not a great mother. — Olive Schreiner
How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No… — Walter Russell
Every great man is unique. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom… — Charles Caleb Colton
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty… — Elbert Hubbard
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.… — W. Somerset Maugham
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word. — Jonathan Swift
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. — Joseph Addison
These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of… — Thomas Carlyle
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. — Thomas Carlyle

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