Great Men Quotes - Page 7

• Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

  Carl Jung

  Conscious And Unconscious

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• Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.

  Humphry Davy

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps. When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses. and When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Determination, Keys, Expectations

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Great men have always had dogs.

  Ouida

  Dog, Men, Pet

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• I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said "billion" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said "billions and billions." For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are "billions and billions"? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? "Billions and billions" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Numbers, People

  "Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium". Book by Carl Sagan, 1997.

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• The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

  Laozi

  Real, Men, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

  Laozi

  Fall, Ambition, Men

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• Never did a great man hate good wine.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hate, Wine, Men

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• How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Simple, Men, Simplicity

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• Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

  John Ruskin

  Clever, Work, Men

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.69, Parlor Press LLC

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• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.

  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

  Science, Men, Artist

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• For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

  Walter Rodney

  Struggle, Men, Unfree

  Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.131, Fahamu/Pambazuka

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• I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Men, Thinking, Heroism

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do

  Bruce Catton

  Men, Thinking, Bravery

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• The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have ever lived have been contented, happy, and honored while in the pursuit of humble trades.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Humble, Men, Favors

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.173

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• What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.

  Mary Midgley

  Light, Hands, Ideas

  Mary Midgley (2011). “The Myths We Live By”, p.223, Taylor & Francis

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• Even great men can be corrupted

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Men

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• Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

  Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

  Apology, Men, Usa

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• A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

  David Suzuki

  Wise, Book, Tree

  David Suzuki, Wayne Grady (2007). “Tree: A Life Story”, p.9, Greystone Books Ltd

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• You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

  Tacitus

  Believe, Men, Good Man

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• Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact that he knows absolutely nothing about matters economic, he cannot even fully understand his economic advisers. . . . His constant worry has ever been to keep himself in power. . . . He believes that he alone is a great man, and all others non-entities.

  Fritz Thyssen

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Men, Greatest Love

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

  Indra Nooyi

  Husband, Boss, Coaching

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• It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Passion, Men

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