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The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off. -- Elbert Hubbard
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- -- C. S. Lewis
Behind every great man there is a suprised woman. -- Maryon Pearson
It takes a great man to be a good listener. -- Calvin Coolidge
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. -- Jim Carrey
A great artist is a great man in a great child. -- Victor Hugo
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. -- Mencius
There was never a great man who had not a great mother. -- Olive Schreiner
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. -- James Russell Lowell
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. -- John Ruskin
Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record. -- Roger Maris
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. -- Paul Valery
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -- Benjamin Franklin
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. -- Thomas Carlyle
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. -- B. R. Ambedkar
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. -- Louis Farrakhan
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. -- Mencius
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
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. -- James Dean
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. -- Honore de Balzac
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -- Benjamin Franklin
My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you. -- Wild Bill Hickok
The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself. -- Theodor Herzl
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. -- Og Mandino
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. -- John Ruskin
Every great man is unique. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is one sentence. -- Clare Boothe Luce
He's my man, he was great -- George W. Bush
Man has become great through struggle -- Adolf Hitler
No man was ever great by imitation. -- Samuel Johnson
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness. -- John Webster
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great. -- Andre Gide
No man is so great as mankind. -- Theodore Parker
Time is the great art of man. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
He was a man of great statue -- Thomas Menino
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm. -- Luc de Clapiers
No really great man ever thought himself so. -- William Hazlitt
Behind every great man is a good brother. -- Nathan Followill
Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle. -- Francois Mitterrand
Great and good are seldom the same man. -- Winston Churchill
A great man is made so for others. -- Thomas F. Wilson
Never did a great man hate good wine. -- Francois Rabelais
Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. -- Hillary Clinton
No man is great if he thinks he is. -- Will Rogers
The great object is that every man be armed. -- Patrick Henry
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel. -- Julien Green
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs. -- Wayne Newton
Behind every great man there is a surprised woman. -- Maryon Pearson
No man however great is greater than his people -- Chinua Achebe
Justice is the great interest of man on earth. -- Daniel Webster
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man is great by deeds, not by birth. -- Chanakya
Man is only great when he acts from passion. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Not every great man is a grand human being. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A great man may commence life in a hovel. -- Publilius Syrus
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness. -- Lucan
Good and great are seldom in the same man. -- Winston Churchill
Good and great are seldom in the same man. -- Winston Churchill
The banalities of a great man pass for wit. -- Alexander Chase
He was a great thundering paradox of a man. -- William Manchester
A great man is always willing to be little. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone. -- Phil Thompson
There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man. -- Judy Biggert
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. -- Jim Carrey
Adversity helps a man to know his inherent great abilities. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. -- James Monroe
Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself. -- Pythagoras
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. -- James Russell Lowell
Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse. -- Swami Vivekananda
A genius is a man who has two great ideas. -- Jacob Bronowski
There is a great deal of human nature in man. -- Charles Kingsley
He was a great man. And he was also me. -- Jeff Goldblum
With great inspiration, every man can reach their highest potential. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss. -- Sophocles
If a man's a good kisser, he's a great f-. -- Cher
We expect a great man to be a good reader. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great man is always the man of mighty effort. -- Theodore Roosevelt
People talk about me because I am a great man -- Chris Oyakhilome
It takes a great man to make a great listener -- Arthur Helps
Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities. -- Michael Gove
The great question, whether man is of nature or above her. -- George Perkins Marsh
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. -- Oscar Wilde
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man. -- Mark Twain
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise. -- Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great. -- Victor Hugo
By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great. -- George S. Patton
Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain! -- Vitali Klitschko
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds. -- Confucius
Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy! -- Ralph Jordan
No man ever did or can do a great work alone. -- Elbert Hubbard
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. -- Sitting Bull
Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life. -- Jeffrey Rasley
No great man is ever born too soon or too late. -- Norman Douglas
It is within the power of every man to become great. -- Wallace D. Wattles
He was as great as a man can be without morality. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. -- Mencius
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being. -- Orison Swett Marden
Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength. -- Homer
If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds. -- Bonar Law
For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls -- David Pleat
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble. -- John Sterling
Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison. -- Bob Saget
Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man. -- DeForest Kelley
St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness. -- Carl Jung
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. -- Andrew Marvell
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man. -- Holbrook Jackson
No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices. -- Napoleon Hill
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. -- Frederick William Robertson
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. -- Arthur Miller

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