Great Men Quotes - Page 19

• One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Common Sense, Able

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• For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Fighting, Men

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.108, Penguin Books India

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• It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

  Brother Yun

  God, Christian, Religious

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2009). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.3, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

  Jean Cocteau

  Men, Stones, Lifetime

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• In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Men, Names

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.796, Bantam

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• Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

  Stefan Zweig

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Stefan Zweig (1989). “The burning secret: and other stories”, Plume Books

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• A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

  Karen White

  Kissing, Blow, Men

  Karen White (2010). “On Folly Beach”, p.38, Penguin

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• Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

  Jane Espenson

  Men, Good Man, Opponents

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• The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Greatness

  1906 Charles Dickens, ch.1.

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• Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

  Idries Shah

  Men, Effort, Greater

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.133, Octagon Press Ltd

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• You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Men, Unhappy

  E. M. Forster (2015). “The Machine Stops”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Husband, Men, Good Husband

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• Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Jesus, Writing, Men

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• I grab Sarah’s hand. “You are more than that. I need you here with me. You’re pretty much the only thing keeping me from completely melting down.” “I get it,” she says. “You’re going to save the freaking world and I’m going to help you. That whole saying about behind every great man there is a great woman? I can be that for you. I just want to be a great woman with excellent aim.

  Pittacus Lore

  Men, Hands, Needs

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• We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

  Christian D. Larson

  Religious, Philosophy, Men

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.339, Penguin

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• The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

  Confucius

  Positive, Men, Demand

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• Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

  "De Providentia" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 9-10., 1922.

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• I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Forgiveness, Prayer

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.53, Moody Publishers

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• Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, History, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.3, CUP Archive

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• History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Men, History

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.630, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

  Lytton Strachey

  Life, Kind, Deals

  Lytton Strachey remarks to Dora Carrington, March 23, 1917.

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• Great men,
  Till they have gained their ends, are giants in
  Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies
  In their performance. And it is a maxim
  Allowed among them, so they may deceive,
  They may swear anything; for the queen of love,
  As they hold constantly, does never punish,
  But smile, at lovers' perjuries.

  Philip Massinger

  Life, Queens, Men

  Philip Massinger (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.175

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• Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Patience, Men, Injury

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• If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

  Bonar Law

  Men, Political, Politics

  In Lord Beaverbrook Politicians and the War (1932) vol. 2, ch. 4

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