Best 126 quotes in «great men quotes» category

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

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

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.

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

... 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.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

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

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

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

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

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.

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

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

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.

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.

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 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'.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

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

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

...a great man. But...not quite great enough.