Best Great Man Quotations
273 Great Man quotes by 195 unique authors
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There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent…
— Gregory Peck
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Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for…
— Samuel J. Wurzelbacher
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
— Tacitus
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Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact…
— Unknown Author
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It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the…
— George Eliot
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When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence…
— Geoffrey Elton
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So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.
— Henry Latham Doherty
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A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?
— Tommy Rettig
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Behind every great man is a good brother.
— Nathan Followill
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
— Gerald Stanley Lee
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in…
— Elbert Hubbard
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A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
— Confucius
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Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He…
— Zhuangzi
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work
— Shiv Khera
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The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he…
— Mencius
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Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate…
— Humphry Davy
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
— William Hazlitt
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The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
— Laozi
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