Great Man Quotes

“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin]”
― John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold

“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of "greatness." "Greatness," it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the "great" man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a "great" man can be blamed.

"C'est grand!"* say the historians, and there no longer exists either good or evil but only "grand" and "not grand." Grand is good, not grand is bad. Grand is the characteristic, in their conception, of some special animals called "heroes." And Napoleon, escaping home in a warm fur coat and leaving to perish those who were not merely his comrades but were (in his opinion) men he had brought there, feels que c'est grand, and his soul is tranquil.
peating: "Sublime! Grand! Napoleon le Grand!" Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.("From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.")

And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.

For us with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable. And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“In every little boy child is hidden a great man; in every little girl child is hidden as great woman. God hides great things in little things and it takes the Holy Spirit of God get them unveil!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The Great Lunzen Thai !!! . A man of true creativity .”
― Imran Shaikh

“He who is neither afraid of the wolves nor hurts the lambs, He is called a great man!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams.”
― Deshwal Sachin

“Who is considered a great man is the one who can be the smallest of the small.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“So the "great man" named Rudolph Giuliani made ladies' titties illegal.”
― Nick Tosches

“I’ve always rejected the great-man idea. The belief that human history was formed by singular individuals instead of broad social forces? Romantic, but …”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“The great truth is that every man
's just a little boy in a woman's hands”
― Augusto Branco