A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. Votes: 2
James Russell LowellThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. Votes: 2
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Votes: 2
Benjamin FranklinIt takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. Votes: 2
Logan Pearsall SmithNo great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Votes: 2
Thomas CarlyleA great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. Votes: 2
B. R. AmbedkarSometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanNothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroNo man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. Votes: 0
Frederick William RobertsonSelf-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. Votes: 0
Andrew MarvellNo man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. Votes: 0
William E. GladstoneNo man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. Votes: 0
George Henry LewesThe great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciEvery man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldGreat abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. Votes: 0
Desiderius ErasmusAll that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product. Votes: 0
Samuel SmilesThe man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroHowever vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalNo great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow. Votes: 0
Edwin Hubbel ChapinThe great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. Votes: 0
Thomas J. WatsonOccupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ... Votes: 0
Letitia Elizabeth LandonWhen we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small. Votes: 0
Philippe Nericault DestouchesIt is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonEvery great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. Votes: 0
Woodrow WilsonAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. Votes: 0
Anthony TrollopeI have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowIf thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerNo man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanA little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion Votes: 0
David HumeThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerGreat truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellMan has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Votes: 0
Billy GrahamGreat is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. Votes: 0
Thomas FullerNo man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellMy great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. Votes: 0
Alan GarnerThe great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems. Votes: 0
Israel Meir KaganTo be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireMy business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIs a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem? Votes: 0
Thomas a KempisThe naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man. Votes: 0
William BlakeBut in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerThe idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over. Votes: 0
John LydonHe that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldLove of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. Votes: 0
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandA man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanA great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett Browning... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIf a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin. Votes: 0
Arthur Alfred LynchHeroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleA great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man" Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltPeter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life. Votes: 0
Luke EvansOh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom! Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteIf a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance. Votes: 0
Aeschylus... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again. Votes: 0
Bathsua MakinI view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonNothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness. Votes: 0
Matthew HenryThat friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. Votes: 0
John WebsterSuch is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. Votes: 0
K. Hari KumarNature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeMan Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core. Votes: 0
Jamie McKelvieMy soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. Votes: 0
Henry Steele CommagerIt's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. Votes: 0
Henry Steele CommagerWhat is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years. Votes: 0
Alfred de VignyA great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. Votes: 0
William HazlittA man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldI did a movie 'I Love You, Man' and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable. Votes: 0
Lou FerrignoMonday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really. Votes: 0
Arthur DarvillA man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranA man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereThought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellEvery man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerA great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenNo matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather. Votes: 0
Rosemary ClooneyNo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMan, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. Votes: 0
Jacques Yves CousteauThe man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonThe fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteIt takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. Votes: 0
J. C. MacaulayMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiMike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president. Votes: 0
Paul RyanBehind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonThere is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. Votes: 0
LivyA good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonA great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonA great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerTime, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice Votes: 0
Josephine HartThe great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerDon't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements. Votes: 0
Jonathan FrakesThe truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranHe who is neither afraid of the wolves nor hurts the lambs, He is called a great man! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanA man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. Votes: 0
George HerbertI am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThe wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world Votes: 0
DemocritusReligion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanNo sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleThe demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others. Votes: 0
ConfuciusA great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorTo vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. Votes: 0
Edgar Allan PoeWine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully. Votes: 0
Evelyn WaughHowever great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauGod loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible. Votes: 0
William BoothThe man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man. Votes: 0
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikIt's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheMarijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life? Votes: 0
Tommy RettigA man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him. Votes: 0
ConfuciusSooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerSooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerA man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good. Votes: 0
AnujDid you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? Votes: 0
John AdamsOne man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. Votes: 0
SolomonWe can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotThere is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work. Votes: 0
L. M. ShawJuan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver. Votes: 0
Jackie StewartEvery great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work Votes: 0
Shiv KheraThoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed. Votes: 0
Joba ChamberlainA great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening, Votes: 0
Bernie KrauseThe great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteA King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. Votes: 0
William HazlittOral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother. Votes: 0
Billy GrahamYou are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinBehind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him Votes: 0
Tariq RamadanI saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. Votes: 0
John BunyanIt makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerWhen a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well. Votes: 0
EuripidesWhen a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do. Votes: 0
Billy CasperWe should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldShe hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. Votes: 0
Jane AustenFailure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. Votes: 0
William Howard TaftHe had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it. Votes: 0
Poul AndersonWe [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. Votes: 0
Woodrow WilsonA certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. Votes: 0
Lewis MumfordMan makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. Votes: 0
Christopher MorleyThe man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaAlthough our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine. Votes: 0
Davy CrockettWithout a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. Votes: 0
Diane KeatonWhen a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThe great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance. Votes: 0
Oswald ChambersA thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonA great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteThe great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyA great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliTo be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GaskellThe great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyShow me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something. Votes: 0
John F. KennedyTeach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. Votes: 0
Thomas HuxleyBisexuals are really attracted to senior Lib Dems - as they are both a man and a great big pussy. Votes: 0
Frankie BoyleThere is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man. Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussWhen a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty. Votes: 0
John BuchanIt was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him. Votes: 0
Edward J. Renehan Jr.In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnI was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. Votes: 0
Barbara T. CernyNo matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him. Votes: 0
Wilhelm von HumboldtAnd again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love! Votes: 0
Arthur RimbaudSire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. Votes: 0
Victor HugoToo great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same. Votes: 0
Djuna BarnesI think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. Votes: 0
Lucy StoneI could never drive in a great big car; people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler. Votes: 0
Terry McAuliffeOne must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him. Votes: 0
Herman MelvilleThe soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great. Votes: 0
A. D. GordonNo man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. Votes: 0
Andrew CarnegieIn Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. Votes: 0
John BarrymoreIf you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know? Votes: 0
Keith RichardsIf the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place. Votes: 0
Sitting BullFerrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him. Votes: 0
Ferruccio LamborghiniIn the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowWhen a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. Votes: 0
Richard SteeleYou have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. Votes: 0
Victor HugoNo man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest. Votes: 0
Benjamin RudyerdWhen this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man. Votes: 0
James A. Michener