Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!
Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise! -Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest
He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
The only greatness for man is immortality.
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.
Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.
If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.
You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take care of oneself, and keep out of scrapes; and that's what I never could do.
How strange it was, I thought, that when the tiny though thousandfold beauties of the Earth disappeared and the immeasurable beauty of outer space rose in the distant quiet splendor of light, man and the greatest number of other creatures were suppos...
To understand antiquity’s idea of man, we must examine its gods and heroes, myths and legends. In these we find the classical prototype of genuine man. ... the will to greatness, wealth, power and fame. Anything opposed to it falls short of the aut...
... And who is the wise man they all speak about, such that is prayerful in every stages of life, such that is patience in the face of like or dislike and such whose heart is full of love and humbleness for others out there. That is indeed a man of g...
And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that...
