Great Men Quotes - Page 20

• There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Political, Politics

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• Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.

  Sharon Stone

  Funny, Relationship, Sexy

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• The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Power, Men

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• Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Hero, Men, Light

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• A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Strong, 4th Of July

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• The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Character, Men

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• 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

  Beer, Men, Power

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• You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she can do; and nobody knows; not even Sir Roderick Murchison, or Professor Huxley, or Mr. Darwin, or Professor Faraday, or Mr. Grove, or any other of the great men whom good boys are taught to respect. They are very wise men; and you must listen respectfully to all they say: but even if they should say, which I am sure they never would, 'That cannot exist. That is contrary to nature,' you must wait a little, and see; for perhaps even they may be wrong.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wise, Science, Boys

  Charles Kingsley (2015). “The Water-Babies”, p.38, Booklassic

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• The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Nice, Grateful, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Hate, Men, Color

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• A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.

  Mencius

  Christian, Children, Heart

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humble, Humor

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

  William Cowper

  Strong, Attitude, Men

  William Cowper (1853). “The Works of William Cowper”, p.29

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• How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.

  Walter Russell

  Wise, Inspiration, Humility

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• A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Falling In Love, People, Unions

  Rudolf Dreikurs (2013). “The Challenge of Marriage”, p.80, Taylor & Francis

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• Let us recognize this one thing: burden is the secret of prayer. If a person does not feel within him burden to pray for a particular matter he can hardly succeed in prayer. In a prayer meeting some brothers and sisters may mention a great many subjects for prayer. But if you are not touched inwardly, you cannot pray.

  Watchman Nee

  Brother, Prayer, Secret

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Let Us Pray”, p.49, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Every great man is unique.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Unique, Greatness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

  Billy Crystal

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

  Ed Furgol

  Inspirational, Clever, Golf

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• Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Opportunity, Men, Often Is

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• There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

  George S. Patton

  Loyalty, Army, Men

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton, 1947.

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• Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Monday, Autumn, Weekend

  "The Autumn of the Patriarch". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1975.

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• Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

  Edmund Burke

  Greatness, Men, States

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2433, Delphi Classics

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• The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Stars, Greatness

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• In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Greatness, Men, Names

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 1 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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