Greatest Men Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The… — Bernard Baruch
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death. — Ernest Renan
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this… — Abraham Lincoln
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend… — Adolf Hitler
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities. — Thucydides
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. — Richard Attenborough
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide. — Pierre Salinger
The world knows nothing of its greatest men. — Henry Taylor
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. — John Milton
I do believe heâ€™s the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe heâ€™s one of the… — George Foreman
Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses. — Jean de la Bruyere
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for… — Zach Wamp
Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as… — Margaret Fuller
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so… — Jawaharlal Nehru
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. — Jean de la Bruyere
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the… — Samuel Smiles
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. — Walt Whitman
To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which… — Alfred de Vigny
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the… — Ian Fleming

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