Best 126 quotes in «great men quotes» category

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

Great men have always had dogs.

Great men are sincere.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

He who is neither afraid of the wolves nor hurts the lambs, He is called a great man!

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

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

I am where a great many voters are, which is that I am listening and watching and coming to a decision.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

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

Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.