Great Men Quotes

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Great men never require experience.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

great men burn bridges before they come to them

The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

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

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

All great virtues become great men.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

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

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

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