Best 126 quotes in «great men quotes» category

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty

My dear Gorgas, Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty’s sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sleep, you may accomplish something that will be of real value to humanity. Your good friend, Reed Dr. Walter Reed encouraging Dr. William Gorgas who went on to make history eradicating Yellow Fever in Havana, 1902 and Panama, 1906, liberating the entire North American continent from centuries of Yellow Fever epidemics.

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.

...my awakening life. I am awake in the present. The present is today. Today is a great gift.

No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!

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

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

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

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

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.

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

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!

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.

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

To win, you have to believe you will win.

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

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

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.

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

We encounter great souls by reading great books.

We rely only on God in the wilderness.

Whoever walk with great people will be great.

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

You possess a great soul, awaken the spirit.

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

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.

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.

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

All great men come out of the middle classes.

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.

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

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.

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

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