Great Men Quotes

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

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

People talk about me because I am a great man

A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

He was a great man. And he was also me.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

Even great men can be corrupted

Great men have great dogs.

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Great men never require experience.

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.

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

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.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

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.

All great virtues become great men.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

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.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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.

Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

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

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

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.

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.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Only great men have great faults.

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

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

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.

A great man is made so for others.

Great times call for great men.

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

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

Great men can't be ruled.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

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

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.