Faces Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The great men. The great men are those who embody the marriage between heaven and hell, hard and soft, strength and vulnerability, Who do…

— VD

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

— Seneca the Younger

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

— Ernest Renan

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest…

— Thucydides

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held…

— Herbert Hoover

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Gustav Stresemann