Great Men Quotes - Page 8

• There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

  Gregory Peck

  Men, Hats, Acquaintance

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• The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Tombstone, People, 30th Birthday

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• It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.

  Brandon Routh

  Yesterday, Legacy, Finals

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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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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• It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

  Henry Fielding

  Friendship, Men, Creating

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.58, Wesleyan University Press

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• The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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• Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the common denominator of greatness has been the ability and willingness to sacrifice for whatever they were trying to achieve. When sacrifice has been there, great humans have emerged. Imagination, Wisdom

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

  Earl Hancock Ellis

  War, Marine, Men

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• In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Learning, Knowledge, Men

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (2016). “The Principles of Scientific Management”, p.6, Cosimo Classics

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• The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Fighting, Greatness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands.

  David Lloyd George

  Hope, Country, Time

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• When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill -- whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  1970 Political History, ch.2.

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• For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fighting, Animal, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “What Christians Believe”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Tragedy

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “Walden: Or, Life in the Woods”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Men, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Men, Race

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• Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Excellence, Common

  Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

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• Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

  Mary Pickford

  Mistake, Learning, Chance

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• A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Speech, Indispensable

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.860, Best Books on

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• Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

  Tommy Rettig

  Boys, Marijuana, Men

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• Behind every great man is a good brother.

  Nathan Followill

  Brother, Men, Behind Every Great Man

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• Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Expecting, Given

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• It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Love, Atheist, Men

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Hero, Men, Political

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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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