quotes about Great Men
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A great many of us have confused change with progress.
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I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
-- Alfred LansingSource : Alfred Lansing (2015). “Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage”, p.11, Basic Books
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It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.
-- Anton WebernSource : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp
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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
-- Aristotle -
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A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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Humility makes great men twice honorable
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.
-- Bonar LawSource : In Lord Beaverbrook Politicians and the War (1932) vol. 2, ch. 4
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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (1887). “The Poetical Works, Including the Drama of "The Two Men of Sandy Bar", of Bret Harte ...”
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Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.
-- Carl Jung -
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
-- Caroline Gordon -
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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.
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
People talk about me because I am a great man
-- Chris Oyakhilome -
A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
-- Confucius -
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Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation
-- David Willetts -
Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.
-- Davy CrockettSource : "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 112, 1994.
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You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.
-- Drew HoustonSource : "DropBox CEO Drew Houston Explains How To Become A Leader Quickly" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2013.
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Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
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Only great men have great faults.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
-- Francois MitterrandSource : "'L'Abeille et l'architecte' ('The Bee and the Architect')". Book by François Mitterrand, Chapter 6, 1980.
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There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
-- Frank Gehry -
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I was a great many far cries from myself.
-- Gary LutzSource : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books
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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.
-- Gregory Peck -
Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
-- Haniel LongSource : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
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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?
-- Henry Mintzberg -
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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.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
-- Holbrook JacksonSource : Holbrook Jackson (1912). “All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies”, p.31, Ardent Media
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
-- Idries Shah -
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The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.
-- Israel Meir Kagan -
When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.
-- James A. Michener -
Great times call for great men.
-- Jaroslav HaÅ¡ekSource : Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War”
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Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.
-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresSource : 1821 Quoted in Henri Delaborde Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).
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The great men of antiquity were poor.
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Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.
-- John French Sloan -
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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.
-- John H. McWhorter -
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
-- John Keegan -
God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.
-- John Ruskin -
Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.
-- John Wimber -
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Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
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There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
-- Judy Biggert -
I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years
-- Julian Bond -
Great men don't 'move to the center' great men move the center!
-- L. Neil Smith -
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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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
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'.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
-- Lytton StracheySource : Lytton Strachey remarks to Dora Carrington, March 23, 1917.
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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.
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If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
-- Margot Asquith -
I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.
-- Mary Hunter Austin -
Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.
-- Mary Oliver -
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Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
-- Max BeerbohmSource : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.93, 1st World Publishing
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I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
-- Max Brooks -
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
-- Mencius -
Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these
-- Michael Pollan -
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People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.
-- Milton H. EricksonSource : Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.106, Ardent Media
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Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.
-- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -
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.
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My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
-- Nico -
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I have been called a great many things in my time - that's politics.
-- Nigel Farage -
... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.
-- Phyllis Bottome -
A great man may commence life in a hovel.
-- Publilius Syrus -
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The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.
-- Robert Morse -
Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men
-- Siddharth KatragaddaSource : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him
-- Tariq Ramadan -
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I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
-- William Hazlitt -
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
-- Woodrow Wilson -
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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.
-- Woodrow Wilson -
All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.
-- Zig Ziglar -
My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.
-- Ezra Stoller -
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.
-- Vantile Whitfield -
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I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
-- Jean Tinguely