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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. -- Thomas Carlyle
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. -- Thomas Fuller
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. -- Charles de Gaulle
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse. -- Pietro Aretino
We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men. -- Ivica Dacic
the Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em ... -- Erica Jong
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. -- E. M. Forster
Great hopes make great men. -- Thomas Fuller
Great men are almost always bad men. -- Lord Acton
Behind every great man there is a surprised 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
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. -- Mencius
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. -- William Shakespeare
Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest. -- Haniel Long
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. -- Sydney Smith
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -- Benjamin Franklin
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. -- William Shakespeare
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. -- Channing Pollock
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
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. -- Harry S Truman
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. -- John Moody
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. -- A. J. P. Taylor
The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family. -- John James Audubon
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. -- William Ellery Channing
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
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. -- Yousuf Karsh
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. -- Lord Acton
Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color. -- Frederick Douglass
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer. -- James Woods
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. -- Bertrand Russell
The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man. -- Wallace D. Wattles
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter. -- Sam Manekshaw
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. -- Stephen Fry
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made. -- Phillips Brooks
Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. -- Molly Ivins
You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Great men are sincere. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men have great discipline. -- Habeeb Akande
Great men never require experience. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Great men can't be ruled. -- Ayn Rand
Great men have big failures. -- Rudy Giuliani
Great men always have dogs. -- Ouida
Great men have great dogs. -- Otto von Bismarck
Humility makes great men twice honorable -- Benjamin Franklin
Even great men can be corrupted -- J. Edgar Hoover
Great times call for great men. -- Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek
Only great men have great faults. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few great men could pass personal. -- Paul Goodman
All great virtues become great men. -- Pierre Corneille
Produce great men, the rest follows. -- Walt Whitman
Great men have always had dogs. -- Ouida
All great men are partially inspired. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great men grow tired of contentedness. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Great men look greater than yesterday. -- Toba Beta
great men take and overtake risk tactically -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Gutenberg and Richter were very great men. -- Frank Press
Great men are never cruel without necessity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Commitment to great causes makes great men. -- Billy Graham
Great men, like nature, use simple language. -- Luc de Clapiers
Responsiblity is the great developer of men. -- Mary Parker Follett
Great men don't nessarily make good husbands. -- Lisa Kleypas
Great men always pay deference to greater. -- Walter Savage Landor
Men, in general, are but great children. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The great men of antiquity were poor. -- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Little things are great to little men. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Great men should not have great faults. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Know the great men of your age. -- Baltasar Gracian
Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is the success which makes great men. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Great men may die, but there ideas won't. -- Kelly Nelson
Great men have the nature of a child. -- Ramakrishna
Few great men would have got past personnel. -- Paul Goodman
Great causes and little men go ill together. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
The hearts of great men can be changed. -- Homer
All great men remain undeterred during dark times. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding. -- Samuel Johnson
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination. -- Abraham Lincoln
Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit. -- Tommy Barnett
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. -- Aristotle
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men. -- Rembrandt
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . -- Mario Puzo
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. -- William Blake
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles. -- Edmund Burke
How great in number are the little minded men. -- Plautus
Great men exist that there might be greater men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are sometimes so even in small things. -- Luc de Clapiers
All great men come out of the middle classes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
great men burn bridges before they come to them -- e. e. cummings
How great in number are the little minded men -- Plautus
Men are only as great as they are kind. -- Elbert Hubbard
All great poets have been men of great knowledge. -- William C. Bryant
Great men are made in the crucible of experiences -- Osho Samuel Adetunji
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful, -- Janusz Korczak
Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type. -- Otto Weininger
All great men are play actors of their own ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
More men have become great through practice than by nature. -- Democritus
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. -- Petrarch
Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage. -- John F. Kennedy
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small. -- Algernon Sidney
Men do not realize how great an income thrift is. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. -- Edmund Burke
None but great men are capable of having great flaws. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. -- Woodrow Wilson
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation. -- Samuel Smiles
Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation -- David Willetts

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