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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.
My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.
People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
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?
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.
A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.
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.
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.
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.
If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.
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.