Great Men Quotes

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

Great times call for great men.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Great men can't be ruled.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

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.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

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.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

All great men are partially inspired.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

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

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

A great man is made so for others.

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.