Quotes of: Great-man Keyword

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

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

Gaudy Night

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

Death of a Salesman: Revised Edition

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.

James Dean

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

Antonio Porchia

Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.

George Foreman

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Henry Steele Commager

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Mencius

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Victor Hugo

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

Paul Washer

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.

Dennis Prager

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity grows greater, it grows less and less likely to do so. God is God, as the Moslems say; but a great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the bet...

The Everlasting Man

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

W. Clement Stone

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

Ken Mehlman

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

James Dean

Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive.

Justin Baldoni