Top 70 Great Man Quotes

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

If you meet your heroes, you’re always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn’t mean that I don’t think he’s a great man.

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert’s a great man, and again, you know, I don’t play the guitar very good, but when I’m playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

I’m not a great man to my children. I’m just ‘Pop.’ The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I’ll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don’t think he wants to line his own pockets.

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.

I don’t think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it’s been great, man.

My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father’s shoes. I was amazed at the size. Would I ever be big enough to fill his shoes? Could I ever grow into the man my father was? I wondered.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I’d never find a man. What’s very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I’ve ever met. He’s a great man and a very good dad.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition’s night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

The likability of any player is always up for debate, and people will always use their own moral compass to judge Luis Suarez, but that’s not something I tend to focus on. I concentrate on what he is like with me on a day-to-day basis, and he is a great man.

I love being Bob Marley’s son because he’s a great man.

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.

I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man – raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league.

My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I’ve got no malice or anything toward him.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I don’t want to just be a great fighter, but also a great man.

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played – the part he acted – and we must also know his audience.

Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there’s something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He’s a great man.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin’s bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.

Coach Fisher, I know what he’s accomplished and who he is. He’s a great man with a great family, and the Hall of Fame is something he’s earned. It’s something he deserves.

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.

I think behind every great man there’s got to be a great woman, whether she’s your wife, your girlfriend or not. I’m not gonna say that there’s not that special girl out there. But I’m in the music biz, and I’m focused on the music.

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.

Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He’s not a man of conflict.

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.

He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?

On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I’ve been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that’s been great, man. A lot of people don’t have that platform.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden’s a great man in the sense that he’s influenced the course of history.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Obama is a great man who’s just beginning to understand the realities. And I’m not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

I’ve always really respected Mark Richt. I think he’s a great man, first of all, and I think he’s a great coach and a guy that truly cares about the players and always has.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?

Kohli is the greatest chaser by far and I am saying this keeping in mind the great man Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin was special but as far as chasing is concerned, Kohli has done better than Sachin. Kohli is unreal.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle’s eye than a great man be ‘discovered’ by an election.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Oliver Reed was a great man who did things his own way. He used to come into Harveys, my restaurant in Wandsworth, and sit on the floor to have a drink before going to the table.

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don’t, so that’s the main quality that would make a good man a great man.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

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.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

I don’t think I am a great man.

Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He’s just straight up and doesn’t beat around the bush. Tough love.