Small Man Quotes - Page 2

• While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

  Confucius

  Men, Law, Land

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Optimism, Investing

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Education, Science, Men

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.58, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, College, Wind

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• I do date quite small men. And one large man! Just one.

  Alexa Chung

  Men, Just One

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

  Julius Erving

  Men, Trying, Living My Life

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• A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

  George Galloway

  Running, Powerful, Men

  "In his own words", www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2003.

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• A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Would Be, Columbus

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

  Confucius

  Hate, Men, Feet

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wall, Believe, Men

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• I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspirational, Dad, Hard Work

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Office, Stills

  "Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Thinking, Shadow

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.132, Bantam

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• Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Thinking, Weakness

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.180, Tuttle Publishing

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• A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Hands, Order

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 5

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• A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Exhausted, Salesman

  1949 Linda. Death of a Salesman, act1.

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• There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.

  Markus Zusak

  Men, Hair, Opposites

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• What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Chinese

  Confucius, William Jennings, Epiphanius Wilson (1983). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Random House Value Pub

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• Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Men, Soul

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• A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Greatness, Men

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• PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, World, Tribes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.182, University of Georgia Press

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• Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Men, Morality

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• The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

  Confucius

  Wise, Character, Men

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• He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

  Mencius

  Leadership, Men, Self

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• For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

  David Pleat

  Men, Balls, Maradona

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