Estimation Quote by John Campbell Shairp

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

— Thomas Carlyle

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

— Abraham Myerson

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

— Mario Puzo

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

— Walter Savage Landor

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

— Orison Swett Marden

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that…

— Samuel Smiles

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

— Charles de Gaulle

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

— Kate Zambreno