Great men Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.

— Anonymous

Great men always pay deference to greater.

— Walter Savage Landor

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

— Thucydides

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

— Thomas Jefferson

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

— Thomas Hobbes

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are…

— Jose Marti

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

— H. L. Mencken

All great virtues become great men.

— Pierre Corneille

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of…

— Joseph Conrad

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

— Anonymous