Courtiers Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity,…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

— Anonymous

It is the success which makes great men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

— Anonymous

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

— Dale Spender

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

— Van Wyck Brooks

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

— Horace Mann

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor…

— Albert Pike

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might…

— H. G. Wells

Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not…

— Orison Swett Marden

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

— Joseph Joubert

It is within the power of every man to become great.

— Wallace D. Wattles