He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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.
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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.
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.
You cannot help the small men, by tearing down the big men.
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.
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