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1 " It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan. "
― Calvin Coolidge
2 " It takes a great man to be a good listener. "
3 " You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living. "
― Rachel E. Carter , Apprentice (The Black Mage, #2)
4 " I know the truth, and I will tell you now: He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he is. A great man, he was. A great man he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. And I knew, as Denny sped me toward the doctor who would fix me, that if I had already accomplished what I set out to accomplish here on earth, if I had already learned what I was meant to learn, I would have left the curb one second later than I had, and I would have been killed instantly by that car. But I was not killed. Because I was not finished. I still had work to do. "
― Garth Stein , The Art of Racing in the Rain
5 " Show me a Great Man and I will show you a Woman of Substance "
6 " You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it. "
― Wilhelm Reich , Listen, Little Man!
7 " When a great man stands on a land for a moment, the land becomes not just a great land for a moment, but a great landmark! "
8 " But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu... "
― W. Somerset Maugham
9 " The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. "
― Brandon Sanderson , The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)
10 " The surest way to damage society is to call for a " great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise. "
11 " I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test. "
― Anna Gavalda , Hunting and Gathering
12 " Who is considered a great man is the one who can be the smallest of the small. "
― Dada Bhagwan
13 " It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity. "
― Alexandre Dumas , The Black Tulip
14 " You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife. "
― Carew Papritz , The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
15 " Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days in prison. "
― Israelmore Ayivor , The Great Hand Book of Quotes
16 " No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
17 " A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams. "
― Deshwal Sachin
18 " To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes "
19 " Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached! "
― Raheel Farooq
20 " I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful. "
― John Ruskin
