Great man Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is one sentence.

— Clare Boothe Luce

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

— James Russell Lowell

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A great man isn't the one who can show all his greatness, but great man is the one who can show his Humility upon…

— Anonymous

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

— Alexander Smith

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

— William Hazlitt

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called…

— Fredrik Bajer

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

— William Hazlitt

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

— Frederick Douglass

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

— Henry Latham Doherty