Great Men Quotes - Page 12

• No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.

  Knut Hamsun

  Men, And Love, Tools

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• I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all sprung from a woman, although we are unlike in many things. We can not be made over again. You are as you were made, and as you were made you can remain. We are just as we were made by the Great Spirit, and you can not change us ; then why should children of one mother and one father quarrel ? — why should one try to cheat the other ? I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Children, Father

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• In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.

  CM Punk

  Believe, Men, Wwe

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• The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.

  Bhagat Puran Singh

  Inspiration, Men, Humanity

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• I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team.
  When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

  Doc Rivers

  Team, Nba, Together

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• There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Successful, Made, Young

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• How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Pain, Lying, Men

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• I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Art, Writing

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• It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

  Agnes Macphail

  Men, Names, Occupation

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• The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Men, Honest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2610, Delphi Classics

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• I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

  Bernard Baruch

  Men, I Have Learned, Observation

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1960). “Baruch: The Public Years”

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• A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Men, Feels

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Speaking to the Heart is a great encouragement to men who want to be better husbands and fathers. It is both a practical job description of fatherhood-showing how fathers build strength in their children-and an inspiring call to family leadership. Any father who takes this book to heart and puts its wisdom into action will be known to his children as a great man.

  James Stenson

  Encouragement, Jobs, Children

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• It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

  Fred Hoyle

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

  Fred Hoyle (1966). “Of Men and Galaxies”, p.21, University of Washington Press

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• My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Father, Taken, Son

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• Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Democracy, Equal

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• 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

  Eye, Men, Followers

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1913). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

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• It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, House, Company

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Scholarship, Subjects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Becoming, Courtesy

  "De Officiis". English Edition,

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• There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Happiness, People, Our Society

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• To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Men, Fortune

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• There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Suffering, Earth

  "The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".

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• There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.'1 Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principle.

  Mencius

  Men, Support, Mind

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• Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reality, Greatness, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.100

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