Quotes of: Great-men Keyword

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Wendell Phillips

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.

John Moody

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Havelock Ellis

Patience is the virtue that forges great men.

The Prisoner

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

George Herbert

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

Seeker After Truth

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

The Critic as Artist

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Henry David Thoreau

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Joseph Conrad

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.

Daniel Nayeri

Few great men could pass personnel.

Paul Goodman

was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use th...

Clarence Darrow

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God.

Dante's Journey

I have always admired brave men and women who endured the test time.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Pietro Aretino

First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.

Vito Fossella