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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
— Barry Goldwater
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
— Honore De Balzac
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
— Charlie Chaplin
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'dAnd tongues that utter'd wisdom
better none — William Wordsworth
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
For whoever believes that great advancement and new benefits make men forget old injuries is mistaken.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
— Catherine The Great
We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the, Dei Verbum, there is a great statement of Vatican II: The bible is the word of god but in the words of men.
— Robert E. Barron
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
— Alfred The Great
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
— James J. Hill
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.
— Marilynne Robinson
Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
— Francois Mitterrand
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
— David Lloyd George
Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.
— Stuart Weitzman
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
— Channing Pollock
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
— Malachy McCourt
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. — G.K. Chesterton
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
— Charles Henry Fowler
...a great man. But...not quite great enough.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.
— Kate Jacobs
I walk upon great men.
— IDO
It is the success which makes great men.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
— Orson Scott Card
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.
— John Tillotson
A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.
— Cyrus The Great
All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.
— Cyrus The Great
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
— Francesco Guicciardini
That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.
— Kate Lord Brown
You are A MAN, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?
— Henry Mintzberg
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
— Adolf Hitler
I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
— Thomas Carlyle
I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
— Jed S. Rakoff
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel
— Paul Goodman
I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
— G. M. Trevelyan
A man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted;
— George Rogers Clark
the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones.
— William Dalrymple
It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
— Henry David Thoreau
Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.
— Anthony The Great
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
— Thomas Huxley
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
— Albert Einstein
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
— Algernon Sidney
Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
— Walter Rodney
To be a great composer requires immense experience ... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
— Frederic Chopin
Everything is habit with men, everything even in their social and political relations. Habit is the great motive-power.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Great men are sincere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.
— Cindy McCain
In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.
— Abraham Lincoln
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
— A.J.P. Taylor
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
— Jean De La Bruyere
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
— Mark Twain
Few great men could pass personnel.
— Paul Goodman
Even great men can be corrupted
— J. Edgar Hoover
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.
— Anuj
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
