Death Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears…

— Seneca the Younger

It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain,…

— Thomas de Quincey

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

— Thomas Carlyle

A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.

— Oenomaus

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

— Thomas a Kempis

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

— Petrarch

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery…

— William James