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People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.
— John F. Kennedy Jr.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense.""Or else a fool. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Behind every great man is a great woman' but in front of every great man should be a spectacular woman
— Josh Stern
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
— Thomas A Kempis
No man is fit to be a Senator ... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
— Henry F. Ashurst
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
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
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
— John Barrymore
I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
— Matt Damon
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
— Alexander Pope
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
— B.R. Ambedkar
Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.
— Jocelyn Gibb
A person, be it a man or a woman, who has not been exposed to the great wonders of literature, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one ...
— William Cowper
Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements.
— Jonathan Frakes
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action ... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
— John Webster
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
— Charles Baudelaire
Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.
— Joba Chamberlain
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
— Henry Steele Commager
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
— Mark Shriver
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
I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.
— Tom T. Hall
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
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
— Sitting Bull
Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer
is the great thing. Oh, that I might
be a man of prayer! — Henry Martyn
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.
— Thomas Huxley
For when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
My revolution is a one-man revolution and almost everybody is the enemy. I may not be doing a great deal of damage, but at least I'm not bullshitting.
— Charles Bukowski
Perhaps I will be a great man ... I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course
— Lorraine Hansberry
Every man has a need to be great at something
— Sunday Adelaja
For a man to be great, he must not dwell on small things, though he may enjoy them.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
I suppose a great and soul filling love is perhaps the greatest experience a man may have, but it is such a rarity as to be almost negligible.
— Everett Ruess
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
— Ivan Turgenev
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.
— Spark Matsunaga
To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes
— Mohammed Sekouty
When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.
— James A. Michener
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
— George Santayana
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
Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
— Nathanael West
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
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.
— Jerrod Carmichael
He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not a man. He is still a little boy and wants the moon.
— John Steinbeck
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
Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!
— Ralph Jordan
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
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.
— Robert Morley
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
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
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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 matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
— Adolf Hitler
You are A MAN, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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
There is no releaseIn a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
— David Halberstam
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
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
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
— Arthur Miller
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.
— Douglas Adams
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
— George Horace Lorimer
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
— Tom Heinsohn
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
— Esther Williams
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
— Andre Maurois
Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
— Swami Vivekananda
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
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
— Henry David Thoreau
Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
