Top 100 Sayings About Great Man
#1. One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."
"Or else a fool.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Mencius
#3. 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
#4. I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
Jacque Fresco
#5. 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
#6. Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
Edward Dahlberg
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
John Adams
#11. L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.
Jerrod Carmichael
#12. Behind every great man is a great woman' but in front of every great man should be a spectacular woman
Josh Stern
#14. If Pierre Bon-Bon had his failings--and what great man has not a thousand?--if Pierre Bon-Bon, I say, had his failings, they were failings of very little importance--faults indeed which, in other tempers, have often been looked upon rather in the light of virtues.
Edgar Allan Poe
#15. 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
#16. 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.
#17. 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
#18. The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.
Ludwig Von Mises
#19. 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.
#20. The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
Theodore Parker
#21. There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
Judy Biggert
#22. Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.
Steve Erickson
#23. The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
Louis Farrakhan
#24. A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor
Benjamin Franklin
#27. 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
#28. Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.
Jackie Stewart
#29. A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
William Hazlitt
#30. The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
Laozi
#31. It really was true that behind every great man is an even greater woman, which stood true for wolves as well.
Quinn Loftis
#32. A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
Alexander Smith
#33. The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
Khalil Gibran
#34. The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.
Wallace D. Wattles
#35. The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
Confucius
#36. If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
William Cowper
#37. 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
#38. To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Homer
#39. The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development
C.S. Lewis
#40. 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
#42. The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.
Ellen J. Barrier
#43. He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
Dave Malloy
#44. 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
#45. The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.
Austin O'Malley
#46. To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Charles Baudelaire
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.
George A. Romero
#51. You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
Tacitus
#52. Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#53. Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?
Narendra Modi
#54. 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
#55. 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
#57. As for children's working off aggressions, I'm against it. They are going to need all the aggressions they can contain for ultimate release in the adult world. Name one great man in history who did not go boiling and bubbling through childhood with a lashed-down safety valve.
Kurt Vonnegut
#58. Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
John Drinkwater
#59. The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
Harpo Marx
#60. Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.
Peter Brimelow
#61. If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
Margot Asquith
#62. 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
#63. Far from being a paradox, this invitation is more reasonable than that of our modern gurus, who ask their disciples to imitate them as the great man or woman who imitates no one. Jesus, by contrast, invites us to do what he himself does, to become like him a perfect imitator of God the Father.
Rene Girard
#65. The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work
Shiv Khera
#66. The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.
Otto Weininger
#67. 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
#68. I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin
#69. There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
Joseph Addison
#70. A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B.R. Ambedkar
#71. Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
Woodrow Wilson
#72. A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Arthur Miller
#73. Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive.
Justin Baldoni
#74. 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
#75. Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.
Habeeb Akande
#76. Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.
Richard Brookhiser
#77. 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
#79. 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
#80. The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#81. 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
#82. A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.
Patrick Henry
#88. When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.
Lu Xun
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes
Mohammed Sekouty
#92. Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.
Harrison Ford
#93. There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Olive Schreiner
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric Hoffer
#98. Abraham Lincoln said, Patents Add Fuel to the Fire of Genius. What the great man did not say is that Too Much Fuel Can Burn the Genius
Kalyan C. Kankanala
#99. 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
#100. 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
