Great Men Quotes - Page 26

• Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

  Os Guinness

  Men, Depth, Height

  Os Guinness (1976). “In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it”, IVP Books

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• I'm so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Player, Squad, Support

  "Arsenal confirm the signing of Alexis Sánchez from Barcelona" by Ed Aarons, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2014.

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• Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Art, Teaching

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• The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

  William Blake

  Hate, Men, Envy

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.143, Pearson Education

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• Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

  Yip Harburg

  Greatness, Men, Way

  "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.

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• If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Spiritual, Men, Ties

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.7206, e-artnow

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• Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Track, Imitating Others

  "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book by Carol Dingle, p. 144, July 26, 2000.

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• Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.108, Bantam Classics

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• I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

  Winston Churchill

  Sorry, War, Heart

  "Mr. Churchill's Reply". The Times, November 7, 1938.

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• Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Joy, Would Be, Needs

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• The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

  Henry James

  Girl, Imagination, Good Man

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.886, Book House

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• 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.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Men, Giving

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

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• 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.

  Joseph Conrad

  Business, Greatness, Men

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.362, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Guitar, Play

  "Elvis Costello: Interview And Music". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. October 4, 2004.

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• It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

  Charles Dickens

  Truth, Greatness, Men

  Bleak House ch. 28 (1853)

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• Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

  Charles Dickens

  Fashion, Men, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.8, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Men, Odds

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Ambition, Men, People

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• 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.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Atheism, Dignity

  HAVELOCK ELLIS (1930). “IMPRESSIONS & COMMENTS”

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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, University of Missouri Press

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• The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't a great man for me as a black person, but he was a great German. Now, I'm not proud of Hitler's evils against Jewish people, but that's a matter of record. He raised Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there's a similarity in that we are raising our people up from nothing.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Names, Call Me

  "Can You Hear Me?". Illuminations: Jewish Culture in the Light of the World, www.prx.org. November 15, 2007.

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• Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, Art, Men

  "Notebook L". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Edmund Wilson, 1945.

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• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Greatness, Men, Blood

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• 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.

  Stephen Fry

  Men, Thinking, Virginia

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• Great hopes make great men.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

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