Best 126 quotes in «great men quotes» category

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Great men are sincere.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great men have always had dogs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

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.

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

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

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

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.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

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

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

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.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

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

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

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.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

The great men of antiquity were poor.

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 Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

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.