It Takes A Great Man Quotes

#1. It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

#2. It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#3. It takes a great man to make a great listener

Arthur Helps

#4. In life I learned that you should not brag, until you've done it And even worse than that.. Could you do it again?? That's why I'm always humble, humbleness is a brave man's obligation, since he knows what it takes to accomplish a great deed

Renzo Gracie

#5. All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

Robert Blair

#7. Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.

Elaine Morgan

#8. Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Victor Hugo

#9. Interesting, isn't it? What do you have to say about that, Fury? (Savitar)
They're on crack. (Fury)
Anyone else on crack? (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. 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.

Robert Herrick

#11. Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand. (Takeshi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

Jack Dangermond

#13. The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,' a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.

Isabella Bird

#14. Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Rose Macaulay

#15. As a hungry man makes haste and takes large morsels on account of his great hunger so your servant feels a great desire to die that he may glorify you, he hurries day and night to complete his work in order that he may give up his tears and his blood to be shed for you.

Raymond Lulle

#16. What takes the power out of that great, intimidating consciousness of external evaluation and steadies our hearts once again is the truth that the opinions of man do not count before God.

Anna Blanc

#17. An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

John Steinbeck

#18. From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

Marcus Aurelius

#19. A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

Samuel Johnson

#20. A great and priceless thing is a new interest! How it takes possession of a man! how it clings to him, how it rides him!

Mark Twain

#21. The first thing on Dr. Amen's master to-do list, the first thing he sees each day, is his gratitude list. Rather than just writing down a few things, he keeps a running tab on what he is grateful for, looks at it every day, and adds to it as joyful moments occur.

Rick Warren

#22. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. It takes a truly great man to see that he's been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.

Amy Lane

#24. The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.

Rich Cohen

#25. Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

Nora Ephron

#26. But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

Katherine Anne Porter

#27. It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so.

Ayn Rand

#28. I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

Sharon Creech

#29. A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going as Congress.

Craig Ferguson

#30. A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.

Lord Chesterfield

#31. If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

Arlene Francis

#32. In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

William Sloane Coffin

#33. If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

Eugene Delacroix

#34. I have walked down jungle trails in Africa where I met fellow Christians; and immediately we were brothers even though we were separated by language, race, and culture.

Billy Graham

#35. The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

Edith Wharton

#36. I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

Mary Frann

#37. Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Matthew Henry

#38. Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith.

T.D. Jakes