Best 126 quotes in «great men quotes» category

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

All great men come out of the middle classes.

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

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 virtues become great men.

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.

A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

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.

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

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

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

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!

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Great men have always had dogs.

Great men are sincere.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

... 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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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