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I have labored to make the record of the great men of my time.
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.
Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.
St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.
Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Great women, in partnership with great men, will continue to take us forward.
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.