Best Great Man Lines
273 Great Man quotes by 195 unique authors
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
— Joseph Addison
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity;…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting…
— John Ruskin
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To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision,…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
— George Santayana
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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and…
— Margot Asquith
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
— Sophocles
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We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient…
— C. V. Wedgwood
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When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.
— Philippe Nericault Destouches
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There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
— Judy Biggert
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Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
— Diane Keaton
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It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was…
— Michael Jordan
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The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the…
— Harpo Marx
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The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his…
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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