Quotes of: Great-men Keyword

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

Charles Reade

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Gerald F. Lieberman

I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

Harry Carey, Jr.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

John O'Hara

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.

Leslie Stephen

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Ray Stannard Baker

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

Jim Bakker

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

Prince

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

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

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... ...

Stephen Fry

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Yousuf Karsh

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.

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

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

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

We largely become what we have observed and respected.

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

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

E. M. Forster

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Steve Buyer