Best Great Men Qoutes
679 Great Men quotes by 462 unique authors
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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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Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble.…
— T.H. White
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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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All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no…
— Peter Lynch
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
— Henry David Thoreau
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He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of…
— Anna Brackett
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige…
— Seneca the Younger
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It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just…
— Brandon Routh
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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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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on…
— Will Cuppy
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We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased;…
— John Vianney
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A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.
— Henry Latham Doherty
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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
— Orison Swett Marden
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So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles,…
— Charlton Heston
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Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something
— Mary Pickford
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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 men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
— Wilferd Peterson
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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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I was a great many far cries from myself.
— Gary Lutz
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Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star…
— John Robbins
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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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If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
— Karl Popper
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For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and…
— C.S. Lewis
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