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  • A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?

    Mother   Dream   Art  
    Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.286, Head of Zeus
  • No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

    Sadness   Men   Misery  
    On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)
  • 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.

  • Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”
  • A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

    Stars   Sleep   People  
  • We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.

  • In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in physics that became the object of philosophical speculation. That's very different from the way time has normally been understood.

    Source: www.patheos.com
  • The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

    Men   World   Levels  
    "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
  • History is written by the victors.

    Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center
  • There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

    Men   Sailing   Nautical  
    Herman Melville (2016). “White Jacket”, p.292, Herman Melville
  • To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

    Hero   Men   Average  
  • None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

    Men   Greatness   Flaws  
  • Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press
  • I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  • Do you know the most important trait a man can have? It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance. In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled down, means the ability to see the best in man.

    Mean   Men   Important  
  • To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

    Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing
  • He was a great man. And he was also me.

    Men   Great Men  
  • He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

    Men   Names   Leader  
    "Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45". Book by A. J. Sylvester, 1975.
  • I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

    Pay   Today   Way  
  • I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

  • All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

    Hero   Men   Play  
  • No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

    Men   Greatness   History  
    On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)
  • There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

    People   Half   World  
  • The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

    'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)
  • In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.

  • I am going to support our great men and women of law enforcement.

    Men   Law   Support  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so much from all the great management theorists. It gave me a greater understanding of my army experience and showed me the gaps in my knowledge.

    School   Army   Years  
    Source: www.egonzehnder.com
  • As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.

    Country   Stars   Heart  
    Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”
  • In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

  • It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

    Wise   Men   Long  
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