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As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down. — Gracie Allen

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others. — Samuel Smiles

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

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. — Walt Whitman

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

It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. — Stephen King

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

Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could? — Zoe Marriott

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

I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father. — Katy Perry

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

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime. — Albert Pike

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

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. — A.J. Ayer

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

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

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

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten. — Idi Amin

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

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic. — Emma Watson

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

Who is considered a great man is the one who can be the smallest of the small. — Dada Bhagwan

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

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. — Jane Austen

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 wanted to say that he yearned to accomplish something extraordinary, to be admired like a man riding at the head of a great procession. — Ken Liu

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

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free. — Khalil Gibran

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

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured. — Jeremy Irons

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

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 covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. — Thomas Adams

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.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. — John McClenahan

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

To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness. — Leo Tolstoy

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. — Moliere