Great Men Quotes

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

Great men always have dogs.

Great men have always had dogs.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.