Extraordinary Quote by Sir Fulke Greville

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

“Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.”

— Jayce O'Neal

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow…

— Clarice Lispector

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Great men are ordinary men with an extraordinary amount of determination.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high…

— Thomas Sprat

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop…

— Knut Hamsun

“Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they…

— Nick Tosches

The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.

— Anonymous

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that…

— Samuel Smiles