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Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
— Billy Graham
But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive - to some woman.
— Agatha Christie
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
— Wallace D. Wattles
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense.""Or else a fool. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This is so," Illyrio agreed, "but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble. More wine?
— George R R Martin
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
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
— B.R. Ambedkar
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.
— Wallace D. Wattles
I would not lose so great an honorAs one man more methinks would share with me
For the best hope I have. — William Shakespeare
Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.
— Isadora Duncan
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
— Oscar Wilde
the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.
— George R R Martin
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
— William Cowper
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
— Anna C. Brackett
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
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.
— Philip James Bailey
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
— Dean Acheson
'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 is one who can have power and not abuse it.
— Henry Latham Doherty
If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
— Gautama Buddha
A great man is one sentence.
— Clare Boothe Luce
In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
— Winston Churchill
No truly great one ever argues with a crowd. He chooses out one man, and speaks to him, him only.
— Marmaduke William Pickthall
It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.
— John Steinbeck
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
— H.L. Mencken
Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
— Charles James Fox
A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
With the faith of a child and the wisdom of an old man one can achieve great things.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A Great Man Has Two Hearts.One Bleeds And The Other Forbears. — Kahlil Gibran
I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
— Barry Goldwater
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
— Clarence Darrow
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
The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
— Khalil Gibran
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
— Thomas A Kempis
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
— Leo Tolstoy
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
The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor.
— H.P. Lovecraft
One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
— Solomon
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
— Richard Steele
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
The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.
— Michael Crichton
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development— C.S. Lewis
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
— Henry James
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
A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.
— Smith Wigglesworth
... in the life of every man there was one great good fortune and one misfortune of equal force.
— David Rain
Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.
— Jose Andres
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.
— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.
— Katherine Anne Porter
One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!
— Tennessee Williams
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
— Lucy Stone
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
