Great Men Quotes - Page 26

• The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

  Samuel Smiles

  Greatness, Men, Race

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Leadership, Book

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.148

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• A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Greatness, Men, Clean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.405

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• What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Mediocre, Nations

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

  Max Beerbohm

  Men

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.93, 1st World Publishing

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• There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

  Stephen King

  Suicide, Way, Commit

  Stephen King (1990). “The Stand”, Signet Book

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• If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didnt see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

  Brian Lumley

  Father, Army, Years

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• In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Color, People, Harvard

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• I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

  Winston Churchill

  Sorry, War, Heart

  "Mr. Churchill's Reply". The Times, November 7, 1938.

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• Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Men, Tree

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• A long time ago, when I was married, in the beginning it was bliss. I eloped after one month, and I married for security. I thought, 'I finally met a man who loves God and comes from a great family. I'm working, I love God, and I'm out here in California by myself, and I've met this great man.' So, I said yes. And we eloped.

  Tichina Arnold

  Men, California, Long

  "Exclusive: Tichina Arnold On Her Past Love Mistakes and Preparing to Remarry". Interview with Charli Penn, www.essence.com. March 27, 2012.

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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Men, Giving

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

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• I don't feel the pressure to deliver an unrealistically great man to the screen; I just want to be honest to who my character is on the page. If I can reflect that and put some heart into him and make him real, then I think I've done my job, and I think that people will like who he is.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Real, Heart, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

  Charles Dickens

  Fashion, Men, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.8, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Men, Odds

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Ambition, Men, People

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• Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Seems, Smallness

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• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Liberty, Want

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• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Ordinary

  Walter Savage Landor (1883). “Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman”

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• The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Long, History

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• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley”, p.385

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• The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Science, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.27, Penguin

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• I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Block, Men, Years

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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