Best 126 quotes in «great men quotes» category

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.

We rely only on God in the wilderness.

To win, you have to believe you will win.

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

We encounter great souls by reading great books.

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.

You possess a great soul, awaken the spirit.

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

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

Whoever walk with great people will be great.

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 come out of the middle classes.

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 virtues become great men.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Great men have always had dogs.

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 are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Great men are sincere.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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