Best Great Man Words
273 Great Man quotes by 195 unique authors
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The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth…
— Laozi
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
— Francois Rabelais
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How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation…
— Charles G. Dawes
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A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He…
— Laozi
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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
— Orison Swett Marden
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A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
— Walter Savage Landor
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A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.
— Dhani Harrison
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He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a…
— Ronald Reagan
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William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth…
— J I Packer
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I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.
— Tupac Shakur
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
— John Drinkwater
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Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been…
— C.D. Payne
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
— Arthur Helps
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A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!
— Ralph Jordan
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People talk about me because I am a great man
— Chris Oyakhilome
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and…
— Knut Hamsun
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No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man…
— Knut Hamsun
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In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread…
— CM Punk
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The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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