Best Great Man Thoughts
273 Great Man quotes by 195 unique authors
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as…
— Stephen Leacock
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent,…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.
— Davy Crockett
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[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose…
— Karl Marx
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would…
— Lady Gregory
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
— Calvin Coolidge
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Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing…
— Elvis Costello
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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great…
— James Dean
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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A great man is always willing to be little.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
— Louis Farrakhan
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
— Homer
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
— Victor Hugo
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
— Victor Hugo
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us…
— Victor Hugo
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