Best 126 quotes in «great men quotes» category

Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?

PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something as a substitute because you feel unfulfilled. When you are absolutely fulfilled, why should you create, how can you create? Then you yourself have become the glory of creation, then the inner being itself is so perfect, nothing is needed. PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING. If the world is virtuous, all utilitarian goals will be lost. If the world is really virtuous there will be play and no production. Then the whole thing will just become a game. You enjoy it, but you don’t need it. A perfect sage is absolutely useless.

People told Henry Ford he couldn't do it. People told Thomas Edison he couldn't do it. People told Andrew Carnegie he couldn't do it. People told Jesus Christ he couldn't do it. They all have in common they were told they couldn't do it and they all have something else in common, they all did it!

To win, you have to believe you will win.

The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in an endemic center; the first application of the mosquito theory to practical sanitary work in any disease.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.

We are all capable of being great dreamers. We must awaken the divinity within us.

We encounter great souls by reading great books.

We rely only on God in the wilderness.

Whoever walk with great people will be great.

When we commit our lives to the Lord, He lives in us, He gives us grace and power to accomplish far greater things.

You possess a great soul, awaken the spirit.

You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.

A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

A great man is one sentence.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

All great virtues become great men.

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

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.

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

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

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

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 are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Great men have always had dogs.

Great men are sincere.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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