Great man Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“An idea is not made great merely because great men die in defense of it.”

— Melissa McPhail

“He liked to say that what makes literature is “inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than…

— Paul Hendrickson

“I said that great men had a sense of history. But when you say you have a great sense of history it does not…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.”

— Mencius

“Great men don't strive for greatness, they simply do great works.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.”

— Idries Shah

“A man isn't as good as his word, he's as good as his Actions.”

— James Miller

“I’ve always rejected the great-man idea. The belief that human history was formed by singular individuals instead of broad social forces? Romantic, but …”…

— James S.A. Corey

“Words are powerful, so use every word wisely to create a better world.”

— Gift Gugu Mona