Great Men Quotes - Page 27

• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  Lady Gregory

  Men, Done, Young

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.521, eBookIt.com

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• There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  "The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse".

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• A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Good Luck, Greatness

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Education, Men, Political

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

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• To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

  Homer

  Fear, Men, Intimate

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• A great artist is a great man in a great child.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Artist

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• Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Seems, Smallness

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• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Liberty, Want

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• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Ordinary

  Walter Savage Landor (1883). “Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman”

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• The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Long, History

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• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley”, p.385

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• The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Science, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.27, Penguin

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• I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Block, Men, Years

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Success, Men, Compassion

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• Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Strong, Successful, Men

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• The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Flames, Ashes

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.735, Delphi Classics

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• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Eye, Mean, Army

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

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• The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.

  Israel Meir Kagan

  Greatness, Men, Greater

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• Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Originality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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• To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

  Horace

  Men, Degrees, Lasts

  "Epistles". I. 17. 35,

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• I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

  Dinah Shore

  Witty, Men, Pay

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• I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Change, Years, Personality

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• This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

  Spotted Tail

  Children, Father, Spring

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