Great Men Quotes

What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives. David Oyelowo

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. Frederic William Farrar

There would be no great men if there were no little ones. George Herbert

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The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer. James Woods

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead. Jules Renard

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The Church of England hasn't often produced great men in modern times. But I have long believed that George Bell, Bishop of Chichester from 1929 to 1958, was such a man. Peter Hitchens

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Great women, in partnership with great men, will continue to take us forward. Richard Edelman

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It wasn't until I did a musical revue in Paris in the 1980s called 'Black and Blue,' and met the great men and women responsible for the progress of tap dance, that my relationship with the dance really began. Savion Glover

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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen. Xenophon

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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. Isaac D'Israeli

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