Quotes About Becoming A Great Man

#1. 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

#2. I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.

Corbin Bernsen

#3. 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

#4. Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Too bad we don't have a flashlight."
"Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.

James Dashner

#6. A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the
thing he thinks about to be created.

Wallace D. Wattles

#7. Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can't relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great being Scottish. We're becoming something, Julie. I can feel it. We're getting dressed up.

Alan Bissett

#8. Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

Freeman Dyson

#9. She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Sri Aurobindo

#10. I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

John Niven

#11. Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.

Robert Dallek

#12. In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,

Bernie Krause

#15. Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.

Ron Paul

#17. I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Albert Camus