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A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
— Walter Savage Landor
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
— Winston S. Churchill
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
— John Ruskin
How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain
— Nietzsche Friedrich
Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.
— Colleen McCullough
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.
— W. Somerset Maugham
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
— William Hazlitt
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.
— Umberto Eco
The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.
— Israel Meir Kagan
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
— Frederick William Robertson
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
A great man is made so for others.
— Thomas F. Wilson
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servantsboth know too much of him. — Charles Caleb Colton
'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
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
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has a need to be great at something
— Sunday Adelaja
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
— Walt Whitman
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
— G.K. Chesterton
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
— Charles De Gaulle
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
— Calvin Coolidge
A great man is always willing to be little.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin
— George Washington
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's rivals tell you how great he is.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
With the faith of a child and the wisdom of an old man one can achieve great things.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.
— Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
— Jonathan Swift
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
— Joseph Addison
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
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
Every great man is unique.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.
— Brent Weeks
You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord. — Lailah Gifty Akita
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
— Theodore Parker
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
— George Eliot
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
— Theodore Parker
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
— Isaac D'Israeli
Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest. — Henry Enfield Roscoe
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others.
— Amit Abraham
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
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
— George Santayana
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.
— Anuj
The great man ... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
— Stephen Leacock
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
— Thomas Carlyle
To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes
— Mohammed Sekouty