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A great man is always willing to be little.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.
There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
I'm friendly with Laurence Luckinbill. He's a great man.
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
I don't want to just be a great fighter, but also a great man.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I've got no malice or anything toward him.
L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well.
Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.
Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He's not a man of conflict.
He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets.
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.
Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
I've always really respected Mark Richt. I think he's a great man, first of all, and I think he's a great coach and a guy that truly cares about the players and always has.
Oliver Reed was a great man who did things his own way. He used to come into Harveys, my restaurant in Wandsworth, and sit on the floor to have a drink before going to the table.
He was just Dad. But it's hard to deny who he was when you're brought out on stage, and you're standing beside this great man singing at the end of a show, and the crowd loves him.
In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.