Events Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character…

— Swami Vivekananda

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

— George Santayana

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

— John Calvin

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— James Russell Lowell