Great men Quote by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Download Open image “Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great men Isolated Men Mountain Mountain peaks Peaks Summits Summits Summits Ranges
Mountain never says that he is great it is the recognition made by the common people… great men are like mountain… (on Big 'B') — Subrata Copy Share Image
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great men are ordinary men with an extraordinary amount of determination. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. — William Halsey Copy Share Image
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson 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
