Admiration Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all…

— Samuel Smiles

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

— Charles Baudelaire

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

— Kathleen Parker

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

— Gustav Stresemann

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.

— Bhagat Puran Singh

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

— Kate Zambreno

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop…

— Knut Hamsun

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow…

— Clarice Lispector