Great Men Quotes
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.
If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.
Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.
We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.