Words matter. These are the best Great Men Quotes from famous people such as Havelock Ellis, Dabo Swinney, Brandi Glanville, Caleb Plant, Oswald Mosley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.
I’ve met some great men, I’ve met a lot of not-so-great ones.
Most great men start in that position, with very little and that’s what motivates them to get where they’re going.
Great men of action… never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
I’m not sexist in any way – sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It’s been my great fortune to work with really great men – with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
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.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.
All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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.
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
They’ve all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
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.
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
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.
Few great men would have got past personnel.
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.
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.
Great hopes make great men.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
If Lincoln is among history’s truly great men, he didn’t achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln’s destiny.
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
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.
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.
I’m not sexist in any way – sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
Produce great men, the rest follows.
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it’s a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
Most great men start in that position, with very little and that’s what motivates them to get where they’re going.
I don’t believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
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