Great Men Quotes - Page 10

• I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Men, Suffering, Saws

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.23, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

  Jules Renard

  Men, Long, Rewards

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.65, Tin House Books

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Talent, Resources, Obvious

  Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam, Bryan Flanagan, Jim Savage (2004). “Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others”, p.50, Revell

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• I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Weakness, Use

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

  Warren G. Harding

  Men, President, Position

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• A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Great Things

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

  Dhani Harrison

  Father, Men, Thinking

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• People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

  Milton H. Erickson

  People, Creative, Accomplish

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.106, Ardent Media

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

  Carl Jung

  Fullness Of Life, Illness, Fullness

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• He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion.

  Ronald Reagan

  Blow, Men, Champion

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Dunces, Consolation

  "Essay on the Literary Character" by Isaac D'Israeli, Preface p. xxix, and Vol. I, p. 187, 1795.

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• Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

  C. S. Lewis

  Bible, Jobs, Thinking

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• The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Music, Work, Men

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.

  John Wimber

  Men, Focus, Man Of God

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• Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Men, Principles, Ordinary

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• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

  J. I. Packer

  Blessed, Men, Evil

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• Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!

  Bill Walsh

  Believe, Forever, Mentor

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• A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

  Alan S. Kesselheim

  Stars, Sleep, People

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• Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing
  enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know
  you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Knowing, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5415, Delphi Classics

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• I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

  Tupac Shakur

  Men, White, Black

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• Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Age

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• I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

  Bob Hope

  Men, Hands, Ruined

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• I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

  Bob Hope

  Men, President, Six

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• I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.

  Bob Hope

  Men, Stuff, Audience

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