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How can any man tell all that he knows, Great Lord," the little man said smoothly. "It would be only prattle, until it becomes useful.
— Robert Jordan
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
— Edmund Burke
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
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
— Walter Savage Landor
How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain
— Nietzsche Friedrich
No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.
— Patrick Henry
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
— James Russell Lowell
Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
The great creative individual ... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
— John Stuart Mill
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
— Johnny Ramone
Two hundred people, of course, can do a great deal more work than one man. But it does not follow that they produce and contribute more.
— Peter F. Drucker
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
— Gerald Stanley Lee
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
— Norman Cousins
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
— Mahatma Gandhi
By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
— George S. Patton
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You can be as great a man as you please while you're alive. Makes not a straw of difference once you go back to the mud. And
— Joe Abercrombie
Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.
— Matthew Henry
It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.
— Francis Kilvert
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
No man ever did or can do a great work alone.
— Elbert Hubbard
What a great man. There aren't very many of them left. I can't wait to see his other policies. Hope he's the next Teddy Roosevelt!
— Brad McKinniss
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
— Oscar Wilde
A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.
— Henry Latham Doherty
Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.
— Joe Lieberman
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin
— George Washington
A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
— George Dennison Prentice
The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.
— H.L. Mencken
It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.
— Frank Herbert
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
— Joseph Addison
A man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
— Bertrand Russell
There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
— Julianna Baggott
Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.
— Richard Brookhiser
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
— Joseph Addison
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It's pathetic - how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great. Trudy
— Markus Zusak
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
— Georgette Heyer
Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods ...
But even the great can tremble with fear.
Even the great can fall — Mary E. Pearson
But even the great can tremble with fear.
Even the great can fall — Mary E. Pearson
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
— Arthur Miller
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
— Frederick The Great
You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country's leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.
— Rachel E. Carter
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
— George Jean Nathan
I'm not worried about that. Aidan loves Sam, and a man can do great things when he's motivated by love. Maggie
— Lauren Gilley
Man can destroy and plunder, earn and accumulate, invent and discover, but he is great because his soul comprehends all.
— Rabindranath Tagore
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.
— T. S. Eliot
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
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
— George Bernard Shaw
When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.
— Steven Moffat
Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan