100+ Greatest Man Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.71

topic: Men, Rocks, Wrecks, Greatest Man

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

- Henry Taylor

topic: Men, World, Greatest Man

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

- Margaret Fuller

source: Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.65

topic: Men, Spirit, Standards, Greatest Man

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

source: Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

topic: Eye, Ambition, Men, Greatest Man

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Independent, Men, Giving, Greatest Man

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

topic: Men, Biographies, Greatest Man

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Party, Men, Spirit, Greatest Man

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

- Alice Morse Earle

source: Alice Morse Earle (2016). “Stage-coach and Tavern Days”, p.46, Library of Alexandria

topic: Men, Cheerful, May, Picturesque, Greatest Man

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

- Tobias Smollett

source: Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott (1835). “Select works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a memoir of the life and writings of the author”, p.312

topic: Writing, Men, Age, Greatest Man

A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.

- John Lancaster Spalding

source: John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

topic: Book, Men, Years, Greatest Man, Book Of Life

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

- John Wolcot

source: John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.460

topic: Men, May, Foolish, Greatest Man

Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the 'the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow' and Robert Heller described him as 'the greatest man in the history of management', praise indeed for a man who described himself as 'just an old journalist'.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Men, World, Labels, Greatest Man

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

- George III

source: "A Tale of Two Fathers" by Steven Knapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2014.

topic: Men, History, World, Greatest Man

Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.

- Joseph Prince

topic: Love, Men, People, Greatest Man

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2442, Delphi Classics

topic: Men, History, Historical, Poorest, Greatest Man

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

- Augustus Hare

topic: Men, Fame, Simplest, Greatest Man

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

- Zach Wamp

topic: Kings, Men, Land, Dr Martin Luther King, Greatest Man

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Art, Disappointment, Lying, Living A Lie, Greatest Man

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

- Francis Picabia

topic: Animal, Greatness, Men, Greatest Man

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

- Ernest Renan

topic: Greatness, Men, Greatest Man

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.134, Library of America

topic: Men, Thinking, Slavery, Greatest Man, Repeated Failure

The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.

- Adolf Hitler

source: "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume I, Chapter 8 - The Beginning of My Political Activities, 1925.

topic: Religious, Powerful, Lying, Human Development, Greatest Man

My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

- Justin Timberlake

topic: Dad, Men, Advice, Step Dad, Greatest Man

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Plato, Believe, Book, Modern Times, Being Gay

Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

- Horace

source: Horace (1717). “The Odes & Satyrs of Horace, that Have Been Done Into English by the Most Eminent Hands...: With His Art of Poetry...To this Ed. is Added Several Odes Never Before Published”, p.189

topic: Men, Law, Judging, Laws And Rules, Greatest Man

Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Lying, Integrity, Humble, Younger Generation, Greatest Man

I have defended Syria for a long time, so I was admiring Syria, I have admired your president very much. I hope at some point to be able to meet him and shake his hand. I think he is the greatest man in a very difficult period, and especially with what's going on right now, in terms of Lebanon and its relations with Syria. But absolutely, even from my perspective, and it shows you how the Zionist media around the world controls and affects all of us. Even those of us who are aware of it - it's subtly affecting.

- David Duke

source: "American White Supremacist David Duke: Israel Makes the Nazi State Look Very Moderate". www.memri.org. November 21, 2005.

topic: Men, Thinking, Hands, Admiring, Greatest Man

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Men, Lasts, John Paul Ii, John Paul, Greatest Man

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.