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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

No matter what great characteristics a man may have, he cannot be equal to God — Sunday Adelaja

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."
"Or else a fool. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do. — Billy Casper

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

A man who endeavored to be better was already superior to the men who claimed to be great. — Penelope Douglas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older. — Steven Hall

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

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. — Jane Austen

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

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden. — Philip Rieff

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

There is a great deal to be seen in the tilt of a hat on a man. — John Steinbeck

A great man is always willing to be little. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes a great man to be a good listener. — Calvin Coolidge

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty. — John Buchan

For a man to be great, he must not dwell on small things, though he may enjoy them. — Joseph Smith Jr.

We expect a great man to be a good reader. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal. — Winston Churchill

If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you how great a man he is. — Harsha Bhogle

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth. — Will Cuppy

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Every man has a need to be great at something — Sunday Adelaja

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 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

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

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

Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy! — Ralph Jordan

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

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

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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

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

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. — Andre Maurois

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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'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

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage. — Mark Shriver

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

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