Great Men Quotes

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

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

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

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.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

Only great men have great faults.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

Know the great men of your age.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

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.

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