Great men Quote by Walter Savage Landor Download Open image “Great men always pay deference to greater.” — Walter Savage Landor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great men Greater Men Pay
The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor 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
