Great Men Quotes - Page 21

• Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Greatness, Men, Use

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• A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Greatness, Men

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• Great men always pay deference to greater.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Pay

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• The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Greatness, Men, Pieces

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• In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Greatness, Men, Tragedy

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• When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Nature, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

  Jonathan Swift

  Greatness, Men, Two

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

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• He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

  Joseph Addison

  Independent, Greatness, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.227

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• Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Greatness, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “The Art of Controversy”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Islamic, Men, Flames

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.242

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• Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Rocks, Poverty

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• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hero, Men, Play

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• Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Men, Idealist

  Woodrow Wilson (1972). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, History

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• The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Men, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

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• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sarcastic, Reading, Writing

  "Writers on Writing". Book edited by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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• No really great man ever thought himself so.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Opinion, Really Great

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1905, Delphi Classics

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• Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Men, Intelligence

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• The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Long, Teeth

  Lewis Carroll (1920). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.89

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• The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Would Be, Awareness

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Soul, Unions

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.4, e-artnow

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• When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Opposites, Names

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Character, Habit, Duty

  "Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson".

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• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Hero, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4

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