Great Men Quotes - Page 9

• 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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  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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• 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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• 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 Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

  Laozi

  Men, Earth, Four

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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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• Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Depressing, Men, Minutes

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• Great men can't be ruled.

  Ayn Rand

  Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.819, Penguin

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• All great men come out of the middle classes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Class, Middle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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• Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Men, Proportion

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2475, e-artnow

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• Study and discipline are the prerequisite to any form of accomplishment. Unfortunately however, studying is much like paying taxes for most of us - we only do it when we have to. If you're serious about developing greatness in your life, study the lives of great men and women and follow their advice!

  Bob Proctor

  Greatness, Men, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 22, 2012

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• A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Hazards

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.365

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• A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

  Catherine Crowe

  Age, Impossible, Unfaithful

  Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.205

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• Great men have great dogs.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Dog, Men, Great Dog

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• Great men exist that there might be greater men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Might, Greater

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• Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Determination, Men, Ordinary

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• The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

  Jules Renard

  Men, Long, Rewards

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.65, Tin House Books

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• All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

  Zig Ziglar

  Talent, Resources, Obvious

  Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam, Bryan Flanagan, Jim Savage (2004). “Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others”, p.50, Revell

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• A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Great Things

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

  Milton H. Erickson

  People, Creative, Accomplish

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.106, Ardent Media

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• Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

  Carl Jung

  Fullness Of Life, Illness, Fullness

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• The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Music, Work, Men

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.

  John Wimber

  Men, Focus, Man Of God

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• Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Men, Principles, Ordinary

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