Best Great Men Quotes
679 Great Men quotes by 462 unique authors
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There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and…
— George S. Patton
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The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
— Walter Savage Landor
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There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
— William Halsey
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The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
— Edmund Burke
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The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach…
— Khalil Gibran
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In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
— Jonathan Swift
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He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
— Joseph Addison
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility…
— Bruce Barton
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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
— Heinrich Heine
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
— Woodrow Wilson
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
— Edith Sitwell
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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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