Top 1200 Great Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.

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

Commitment to great causes makes great men.

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.

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

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

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

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that much thought. Men come into it with reluctance about being capsized or trapped or whatever their fear is. When you check in later, women are disappointed because their expectations have not come to pass, and men are pleasantly surprised.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

Pakistani men are great-looking. Now I know where all the good looking men in the sub-continent are hiding!

Great hopes make great men.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

Great times call for great men.

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

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.

Great men should not have great faults.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

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.

All great virtues become great men.

Our Founding Fathers, regular men who did great things together, established this system along with other regular men.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man.

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.

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.

Only great men have great faults.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

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.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

Sometimes, men just need a little push. Men won't always be like, 'You are so beautiful. You look great today.' And sometimes women want to hear that.

When you talk about those Liverpool greats, they had players who won everything. Some great team men, great goalscorers, longevity.

Maybe it`s a great blow for feminism that we now have men mocking one another about their makeup. I mean, let`s - can we enjoy that? That`s kind of great.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

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

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

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property