Great Men Quotes - Page 17

• If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Average, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.33, Virginia Woolf

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• I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

  Daniel Keyes

  Men, Dedication, Important

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brother, Men, Prejudice

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• She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

  Thomas Hardy

  Family, Mother, Party

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.1025, Open Road Media

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• The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Men, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

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• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sarcastic, Reading, Writing

  "Writers on Writing". Book edited by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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• No really great man ever thought himself so.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Opinion, Really Great

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1905, Delphi Classics

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• Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Men, Intelligence

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• The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Long, Teeth

  Lewis Carroll (1920). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.89

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• The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Would Be, Awareness

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Soul, Unions

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.4, e-artnow

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• When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Opposites, Names

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Character, Habit, Duty

  "Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson".

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• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Hero, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4

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• Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eye, Men, Discovery

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Memories, Greatness, Men

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.171, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• ...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ignorance, Achievement, Liberty

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• There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Equality, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.973, Library of Alexandria

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• There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Greatness, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [140]

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• "Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Unwavering Faith, Impossible

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.20, e-artnow

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• The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

  Walter Russell

  Successful, Men, Thinking

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• In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Two, Depth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.

  Walter Russell

  Successful, Men, Creative

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• The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Average, Ideas

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.59, e-artnow

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• The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Selfish, Men

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