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679 Great Men quotes by 462 unique authors
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Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.
— Jackie Stewart
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I don't believe in stereotypes, I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis. The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
— Andre Gide
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A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
— Archibald Cox
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A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all…
— Dwight L. Moody
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is…
— Christina Stead
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance…
— Matthew Henry
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
— Thomas Carlyle
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to…
— Edmund Burke
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
— Mencius
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Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be…
— Gautama Buddha
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Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the…
— Ayn Rand
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Know the great men of your age.
— Baltasar Gracian
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This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should be carved into…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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Humility makes great men twice honorable
— Benjamin Franklin
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I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and…
— Bob Hoover
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Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which…
— Edward Bernays
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The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic…
— H.G. Wells
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
— Alexander Smith
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By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great…
— Fredrik Bajer
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The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
— C.S. Lewis
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Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
— Walter Lippmann
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