Great man Quote by Joseph Addison

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

— Francois Fenelon

A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else,…

— Marcus Aurelius

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

— James Smithson

Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot…

— John Locke

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

— Woodrow Wilson

A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness

— Garrison Wynn

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

— William Hazlitt

“To receive man’s recognition, you will have to abide by man’s rules. And man’s recognition might lead you to success, but it will never…

— Sergio de la Mora

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

— Samuel Smiles

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe