Great Men Quotes - Page 2

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

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.

Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

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

Only great men have great faults.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

Great men can't be ruled.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

A great man is made so for others.

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

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

Great times call for great men.