Great Men Quotes - Page 4

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

Few great men could pass personnel.

Great men always have dogs.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.