Great men Quote by Richard Hofstadter Download Open image ““Once great men created fortunes; today a great system creates fortunate men.”” — Richard Hofstadter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great men Wealth
“"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“But fortunate means that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune: and a good fortune is good disposition of the soul, good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
“When we combine the idea of prosperity with an intention for our highest good and the highest good of all life, we create true… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“We feed on genius. . . . Great men exist that there may be greater men.” — Susan Banfield Copy Share Image
“Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had” — Michelle Cohen Corasanti Copy Share Image
“Great men don't strive for greatness, they simply do great works.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself".” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... fortune is not in time or place or things; but, good or bad, in the man’s own self for him alone to find… — Percy FitzPatrick Copy Share Image
“The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“purity of a sort is easily had where responsibilities are not assumed. The” — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“The truly creative mind is hardly ever so much alone as when it is trying to be sociable. The” — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.” — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
