Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it.”

— Machiavelli Niccolo

“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.”

— Bahá'u'lláh

“Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had”

— Michelle Cohen Corasanti

“Once great men created fortunes; today a great system creates fortunate men.”

— Richard Hofstadter

“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are…

— Samuel Smiles

“And in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Great lawyers and statesmen had stepped forward from their ranks, men who had shaped the nation and passed it along in good shape to…

— Tommy Wieringa

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring up in…

— Henry Fielding

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

— John Calvin

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch

“And so at last, instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money; they honour and look up to the…

— Plato