Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Votes: 4
Arthur SchopenhauerNo great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Votes: 4
Thomas CarlyleWe believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men. Votes: 3
Ivica DacicThere have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareCertainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest. Votes: 2
Haniel LongThere never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Votes: 2
Benjamin FranklinFaith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareThe world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Votes: 2
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. Votes: 2
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. Votes: 0
Anton WebernGreat men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified. Votes: 0
Wilferd PetersonGreat men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. Votes: 0
Francis BaconGreat men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Votes: 0
Thomas Wentworth HigginsonRegrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others. Votes: 0
Michelle FranklinIt is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldYour great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ. Votes: 0
Edward Norris KirkMost men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. Votes: 0
Jean Francois Paul de GondiGreat men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men Votes: 0
Tunku Abdul RahmanGreat men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Votes: 0
Thomas W. HigginsonThe lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance. Votes: 0
Mary Baker EddyMen demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great. Votes: 0
Baldassare CastiglioneSuperiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. Votes: 0
Horace MannIn great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisGreat men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. Votes: 0
George Stillman HillardAmerican politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular. Votes: 0
George PackerThere are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. Votes: 0
William HalseyVulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerThe biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. Votes: 0
Kate ZambrenoGreat men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheAll great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. Votes: 0
Charles Henry ParkhurstDon't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody. Votes: 0
John French SloanThrough the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought. Votes: 0
Stevie WonderOur constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Votes: 0
Gerald R. FordBeneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Votes: 0
Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonMen ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies. Votes: 0
Robert Dale OwenEvery little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliAll great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] Votes: 0
Pierre CorneilleThe majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuThe great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauGreat men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously. Votes: 0
Jean Francois Paul de GondiMen despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersGreat women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion. Votes: 0
Spencer W. KimballGreat men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorSeneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. Votes: 0
Robert A. BurtonThe practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood. Votes: 0
Conrad HiltonGreat men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonGreat men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none Votes: 0
William WordsworthYoung men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. Votes: 0
Benjamin JowettGreat men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersMen who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranI fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold. Votes: 0
John RuskinPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauLack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. Votes: 0
Anatole FranceGreat men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. Votes: 0
Lord ActonIt is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheReally great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineMen who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Votes: 0
Kahlil GibranMen fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereAn infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. Votes: 0
John RuskinGreat men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorOne great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration. Votes: 0
Andrew CarnegieIt does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. Votes: 0
Phillips BrooksMen who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper. Votes: 0
Victor CherbuliezMen are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardThe better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. Votes: 0
William Carlos WilliamsThe great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it. Votes: 0
Isabel PatersonThe great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteThe fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerTo make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeTo know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardThe hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. Votes: 0
Thomas B. MacaulayThe world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell HolmesIt's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting. Votes: 0
Elisabeth MossIs there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. Votes: 0
Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresThe world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFor us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerI love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people. Votes: 0
Tracy MorganGod give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands. Votes: 0
J. G. HollandGreat men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersGreat men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleEffort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown. Votes: 0
Idries ShahThe practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood. Votes: 0
Conrad HiltonHeroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleGreat men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThe great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamThe superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonOur great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. Votes: 0
Gerald R. FordMen and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough. Votes: 0
Pope Benedict XVIIs a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem? Votes: 0
Thomas a KempisA great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiPretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. Votes: 0
Roger L'EstrangeIn great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortHe has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacFor great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool. Votes: 0
Abdul KalamGreat men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny. Votes: 0
Brian TracyPoverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. Votes: 0
Heinrich HeineGreat occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Votes: 0
Brooke WestcottA great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadAs great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. Votes: 0
Pierre CorneilleFishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareJesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great. Votes: 0
William BarclayIt is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. Votes: 0
Criss JamiMen of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. Votes: 0
Robert SilverbergMen are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaSuccess has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men. Votes: 0
DemosthenesI worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonI do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Votes: 0
Nikola TeslaI know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. Votes: 0
VoltaireMen did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonA great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves Votes: 0
Agatha ChristieMen did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Votes: 0
G.K. ChestertonHe who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroEvenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. Votes: 0
HoraceHistory is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirI come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. Votes: 0
Bill MoseleyThe folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. Votes: 0
Edward BellamyYou will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story. Votes: 0
Paul Tudor JonesGod's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage Votes: 0
Mark TwainA great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen. Votes: 0
Radclyffe HallMost men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. Votes: 0
James J. HillI have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness. Votes: 0
SaladinTalking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. Votes: 0
Edward McKendree BoundsSome men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardWhatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it. Votes: 0
Mark TwainNo sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacThe errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldTrust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonBlack men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward. Votes: 0
Marcus GarveyA great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIf we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Votes: 0
Karl PopperGreat men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldNo, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayI like 'Mad Men,' and I think 'The Killing' is pretty great too. I like 'Brothers & Sisters.' Votes: 0
Betsy BrandtMen are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away. Votes: 0
William WordsworthBreaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men. Votes: 0
Robert BenchleyWhen a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men. Votes: 0
John BunyanMen may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldInstead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men. Votes: 0
John WimberHe was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. Votes: 0
John FowlesA few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them. Votes: 0
William Wrigley, Jr.It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God. Votes: 0
Brother YunThose who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuThe reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead Votes: 0
Jules RenardI think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. Votes: 0
Lucy StoneI went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men. Votes: 0
Victoria PrincipalI went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men Votes: 0
Victoria PrincipalIt has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. Votes: 0
Rebecca Harding DavisA nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. Votes: 0
Friedrich Nietzsche