Top 100 Quotes About A Great Man
#1. He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
Joseph Addison
#2. It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
Sigmund Freud
#4. The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work
Shiv Khera
#5. Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.
Frederick Douglass
#6. There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
Joseph Addison
#7. A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B.R. Ambedkar
#8. A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Arthur Miller
#9. Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
Jane Espenson
#10. When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
Edmund Burke
#12. Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#13. The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#14. The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
Wallace D. Wattles
#15. As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
Cleveland Abbe
#17. The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
Charles Caleb Colton
#18. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
George Eliot
#19. A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric Hoffer
#20. Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it.
Victor Hugo
#21. A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things."
Charles Kingsley
#22. A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.
Mencius
#23. How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
Charles G. Dawes
#24. The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
William Hazlitt
#27. A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#29. There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Olive Schreiner
#30. To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes
Mohammed Sekouty
#31. Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
Ada Leverson
#32. There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Paul David Washer
#33. When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.
Lu Xun
#34. The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#35. Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
Michael Scheuer
#36. We are defined by our enemies - but also we can choose them. Make an enemy of hatred, Jorg. Do that and you could be a great man, but more importantly, maybe a happy one. There's
Mark Lawrence
#38. One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."
"Or else a fool.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#39. Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food.
Ted Nugent
#40. You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
Tacitus
#42. A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. She nodded, looking down at the small wooden bird, a plain thing carved by a great man who'd always taken pleasure in creating things with his own hands. She's telling me, I think, that I should seek to be none other than myself, and so fly always like the bird that I was born to be.
Susanna Kearsley
#44. To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Charles Baudelaire
#45. The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.
Austin O'Malley
#46. Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
Dave Malloy
#49. I'll take my chances. It has you.
And when a great man says something smart like that a smart woman just shuts up.
Laura Castoro
#50. The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development
C.S. Lewis
#51. To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Homer
#52. I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it's very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.
Preity Zinta
#53. If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
William Cowper
#54. The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
Confucius
#55. A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
Alexander Smith
#56. A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#58. There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
Judy Biggert
#59. If a great man falls and remains great as he lies, people no more despise him than they stamp on a fallen temple, which the devout still worship as much as when it was standing.
Seneca.
#60. I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.
Steven Spielberg
#61. It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him.
Edward J. Renehan Jr.
#62. The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
Brandon Sanderson
#64. A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
John Adams
#65. Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.
James Freeman Clarke
#66. Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be
a man.
Edward Abbey
#67. Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
Edward Dahlberg
#68. Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#69. Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#70. He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Mencius
#71. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#72. But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.
Adolf Hitler
#73. A great man will experience more failures than successes. If we lived for the successes, we would have all killed ourselves by now.
Andrew Sturm
#74. 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
#75. Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
#76. A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
Benjamin Disraeli
#77. There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring
Muhammad Ali
#79. Great man is still a great man even at the bottom of a well and a little man is still a little man even at the top of a mountain!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.
Ferruccio Lamborghini
#81. When a great man stands on a land for a moment, the land becomes not just a great land for a moment, but a great landmark!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#82. It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore De Balzac
#84. You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.
Behdad Sami
#86. Gates should have exceeded Washington as a military leader. He had long experience in a professional army and was more loved by his men. But Washington's character was superior to that of his rival, and it made him a great man, whereas Gates was merely a good soldier.
John Ferling
#88. There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they seize only on the defect he has.
Baldassare Castiglione
#89. You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#90. Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
John Webster
#91. A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
Paul Valery
#92. What has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be made. That's when everyone becomes a great man, for a moment; and the choices made in those moments, which come all too frequently, then combine to make history.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#93. Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
Albert Schweitzer
#94. Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
Lady Gregory
#95. Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
Clarence Darrow
#96. You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife.
Carew Papritz
#97. It's not easy is it? Being a great man's son. You'd thought that would come with all kinds of advantages - with borrowed admiration, and respect. But it's only as easy as it is for the seeds of a great tree, trying to grow in its choking shadow. Not many make it to the sunlight for themselves.
Joe Abercrombie
#98. He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.
Umberto Eco
#99. That man is ... odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Ubertino
Umberto Eco
#100. Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!
Ralph Jordan
