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Great Man Quotes (page 7)

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. Theodore Roosevelt
Diane Keaton quote: "Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I..."
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. Diane Keaton
Judy Biggert quote: "There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man."
There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man. Judy Biggert
Tommy Rettig quote: "Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could..."
Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life? Tommy Rettig
Charles Baudelaire quote: "To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only..."
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. Charles Baudelaire
Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love. Tito Jackson
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. Honore de Balzac
B. R. Ambedkar quote: "A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is..."
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. B. R. Ambedkar
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons, and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single... Ayn Rand
Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. Friedrich Nietzsche
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. Adam Smith
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit..."
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. Albert Einstein

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