Greatest Man Quotes - Page 2

• If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

  George III

  Men, History, Doe

  "A Tale of Two Fathers" by Steven Knapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2014.

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• Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.

  Joseph Prince

  Love, Men, People

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• The greatest man in history was the poorest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, History, Historical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2442, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspirational, Humility, Men

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• One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

  Zach Wamp

  Kings, Men, Land

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• None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  Bernard Baruch

  Art, Disappointment, Lying

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• Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

  Francis Picabia

  God, Animal, Greatness

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• The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

  Ernest Renan

  Death, Greatness, Men

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• I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.134, Library of America

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• The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Powerful, Lying

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume I, Chapter 8 - The Beginning of My Political Activities, 1925.

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• My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

  Justin Timberlake

  Dad, Men, Advice

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Plato, Believe, Book

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• Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

  Horace

  Men, Law, Judging

  Horace (1717). “The Odes & Satyrs of Horace, that Have Been Done Into English by the Most Eminent Hands...: With His Art of Poetry...To this Ed. is Added Several Odes Never Before Published”, p.189

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• Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lying, Integrity, Humble

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• I have defended Syria for a long time, so I was admiring Syria, I have admired your president very much. I hope at some point to be able to meet him and shake his hand. I think he is the greatest man in a very difficult period, and especially with what's going on right now, in terms of Lebanon and its relations with Syria. But absolutely, even from my perspective, and it shows you how the Zionist media around the world controls and affects all of us. Even those of us who are aware of it - it's subtly affecting.

  David Duke

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  "American White Supremacist David Duke: Israel Makes the Nazi State Look Very Moderate". www.memri.org. November 21, 2005.

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• John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Men, Lasts, John Paul Ii

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• Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Stars, Men

  Andy Andrews (2002). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Buddhism, Men, Errors

  "The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology". "On Heroes" by Thomas Carlyle, Chapter 1, ebooks.adelaide.edu.au. 1840.

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• Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, Individuality, Nations

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• The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

  William Blake

  Hate, Men, Envy

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.143, Pearson Education

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• Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can't prove it, I can't put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

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• Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

  John Lubbock

  Clever, Men, Industry

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• Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Darkness, He Man

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools or systems in their name. They never create any stir but just melt down in love.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, School, Men

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