Quotes About Great Men Inspirational

#1. I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

Harold Ford Jr.

#2. The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

Robert Collier

#3. Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.

Habeeb Akande

#4. If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

Jo Brand

#5. To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Oakland kids are always the best.

Zendaya

#7. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many of the world's great men had been homosexual. Alas, I've been sentenced to a life mundane heterosexuality. I can only hope that a few of you will be more fortunate.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#9. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Helen Keller

#10. There lived great souls in history.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. What you look like and how great you are rarely go hand in hand. Otherwise, we'd have no trouble judging good men from bad, now would we?

Dew Pellucid

#12. The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine. For most of its history, the practice was not separated from other aspects of human activity.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#13. Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had

Michelle Cohen Corasanti

#14. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

#15. When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Richard Steele

#16. Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#17. Why do great men fall? Great men fall because they can not manage success".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#19. Great treasures bring out great greed in the hearts of men and great greed has been the downfall of many nations. - from Opoponax Dreams

Genieve Dawkins

#20. If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

Kurt Masur

#21. Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude

Arthur Schopenhauer

#22. I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

Condola Rashad

#23. If you are afraid of someone, you immediately give them an advantage and give them entry to your awareness field.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles De Gaulle

#25. In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alan Watts

#26. He wore normal clothes, but his dark skin contrasted with the rest of the bystanders.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#27. The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Mary Astell

#28. Men who attain great heights always have few friends but many admirers, while those who ply the lower reaches of fortune often have many friends but scarcely an admirer in sight

Agona Apell

#29. Without ambition, no goal can be met.

Kya Aliana

#30. An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

John Ruskin

#31. For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#32. Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.

Cleveland W. Gibson

#33. Every great soul was inspired by another great soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

David Baker

#35. Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

Thomas Carlyle

#36. For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Jonathan Swift