Great Men Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

  Peter Lynch

  Hands, People, Effort

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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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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• He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

  Anna Brackett

  Struggle, Men, Answers

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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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• 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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• We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints were not like that - they were vexed if their virtues were known, and pleased that their imperfections should be seen.

  John Vianney

  Pride, People, Imperfection

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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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• So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men

  Charlton Heston

  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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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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• Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Men, Excellence, Ordinary

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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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• I was a great many far cries from myself.

  Gary Lutz

  Cry

  Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

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• Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star filled skies and beside hearths, people have given thanks, and offered their blessings.

  John Robbins

  Stars, Humble, Blessing

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• Behind every great man is a good brother.

  Nathan Followill

  Brother, Men, Behind Every Great Man

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• The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Men, Hands, He Man

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

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• If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Civilization, Wish

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.33, Routledge

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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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• 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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• The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

  Alfred Einstein

  Struggle, Animal, Men

  Alfred Einstein (1962). “Mozart, His Character, His Work”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand

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  A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

  Confucius

  Men, Small Man, Hard

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• Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He does not seek gain, but does not despise his followers who do. He struggles not for wealth, but does not take credit for leaving it alone... The ranks and emoluments of the world are to him no cause for joy, it's punishments and shame no cause for disgrace.

  Zhuangzi

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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