Best Great Man Sayings
273 Great Man quotes by 195 unique authors
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to…
— Edmund Burke
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
— Mencius
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Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be…
— Gautama Buddha
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The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic…
— H.G. Wells
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
— Alexander Smith
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By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great…
— Fredrik Bajer
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The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
— C.S. Lewis
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I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a…
— Robert Caro
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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
— Paul Washer
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Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
— Henry Steele Commager
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People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.
— John F. Kennedy Jr.
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My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am…
— Wild Bill Hickok
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The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and…
— Samuel Smiles
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A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.
— Mao Zedong
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Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated…
— David Herbert Donald
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Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in…
— Timothy Findley
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Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young…
— John Ruskin
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Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.
— Ferruccio Lamborghini
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
— William Hazlitt
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I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness…
— Lucian
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The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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