Great Men Quotes

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

Faith, Great, Men

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

Great, Men, Loved

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, Spiritual

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great, Men, Night

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, After

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, Find

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau

Great, Men, True

Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller

Great, Men, Hopes

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller

Great, Men, Between

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Men, History

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time, Great, Men

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh

Great, Men, Alone

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, Men, History

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

Great, Men, Truth

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, Men, Proof

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli

Great, Men, Ambition

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman

Great, Men, Victory

Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman

Great, Men, Rest

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Great, Men, Solitude

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles Dickens

Great, Men, Seldom

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster

Great, Men, Around

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock

Good, Great, Men

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry

Women, Great, Men

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great, Men, Nor

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Havelock Ellis

Great, Men, Truly

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
George Herbert

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle

Great, Men, Nothing

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
Jean de la Bruyere

Great, Men, Best

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel

Great, Men, Intuition

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad

Work, Great, Men

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