Top 1200 Great Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

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.

A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He's not a man of conflict.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

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.

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

Bob Ford is a great guy. He's a great friend. He's done a great job at Oakmont and Seminole. He's a very quiet man. He doesn't get in the middle of everything, but he understands what a nice job he's done at both places.

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

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.

LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.

They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well.

It is a great privilege for me to play at Man United, where great players like Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole have played.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

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

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man - raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

A long time ago, when I was married, in the beginning it was bliss. I eloped after one month, and I married for security. I thought, 'I finally met a man who loves God and comes from a great family. I'm working, I love God, and I'm out here in California by myself, and I've met this great man.' So, I said yes. And we eloped.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

Man is indeed lost, but that does not mean that he is nothing. We must resist humanism, but to make a man a zero is not the right way to resist it ... [The] Christian position is that man is made in the image of God and even though he is now a sinner, he can do things that are tremendous - he can influence history for this life and the life to come, for himself and for others...From the biblical viewpoint, man is lost, but great.