Zitat des Tages über Großartiger Mann / Great Man:
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
I love being Bob Marley's son because he's a great man.
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
A great man is always willing to be little.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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.
About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant figure. The usual way to try to do this is by publishing a thumping big biography, and let me say that there is nothing wrong with this, although it still hasn't worked.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.