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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
