Great Men Quotes (page 8)

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• real life
• life
• greatness

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor, the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams. Lew Wallace

• believe
• great
• sorry

Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward. Wilkie Collins

• quality
• manly
• kindness

Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to... Earl Nightingale

• men
• forgiveness
• little

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Khalil Gibran

• greatness
• faith
• have faith

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. Charles Fillmore

• great
• greatness
• style

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self. Lexa Doig

• kindness
• great
• men

Men are only as great as they are kind. Elbert Hubbard

• choices
• great
• wise

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. Pindar

• great
• men
• greatness

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. Francois Mauriac

• society
• great
• women

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. Mary Wollstonecraft

• great
• men
• greatness

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies. Robert Dale Owen

• eyes
• strong
• great

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. Brooke Foss Westcott

• respect
• greatness
• great

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. Henry David Thoreau

• greatness
• great
• men

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli

• women
• depression
• world

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. Steve Buyer