« All Great Men Quotes · Ralph Waldo Emerson's Page
Great Men Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every great man is unique.
- A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
- 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.…
- The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.
- In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not…
- Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
- All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
- We expect a great man to be a good reader.
- Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
- All great men come out of the middle classes.
- Great men exist that there might be greater men.
- The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when…
- A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
- Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
- All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
- A great man is always willing to be little.
- Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
- The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great…
- What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the…
- Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
- Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
More Great Men Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. — Phillips Brooks
- Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest… — Jean de la Bruyere
- The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
- No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle
- All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. — Alexis Carrel
- Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. — Jim Carrey
- It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give… — William Ellery Channing