Great Quotes

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

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.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

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.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.