A Quote by William Halsey

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

William Halsey

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William Halsey
American - Military man
October 30, 1882 - August 16, 1959

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William Halsey

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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

Tunku Abdul Rahman

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

Tommy Barnett

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.

Jacque Fresco

Eat as much as you'd like. My philosophy has always been that all women desire to be as fat as myself but just have a great fear of doing so. Because they think they won't get any men, but you will. You'll get more men, and better men.

Roseanne Barr

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

William Halsey

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

Abraham Lincoln

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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

Wilferd Peterson

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

Walter Savage Landor

Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

Albert Einstein

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Thomas Carlyle

Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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.

Hugh Shelton

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