Großartiger Mann / Great Man Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Großartiger Mann / Great Man:

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. Victor Hugo

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Alexander Smith

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.

Maryon Pearson

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Victor Hugo

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.

Fredrik Bajer

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

Michael Scheuer

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Henry Steele Commager

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

Adolf Hitler

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.

Lady Gregory

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

B. R. Ambedkar

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.

Steve Erickson

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Benjamin Disraeli

I love being Bob Marley's son because he's a great man.

Rohan Marley

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.

Robert Caro

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

Louis Farrakhan

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Olive Schreiner

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

James Russell Lowell

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Paul Valery

A great man is always willing to be little.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Mike Pence

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Mencius

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Joe Wurzelbacher

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.

John Ruskin

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.

George A. Romero

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Homer

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.

Og Mandino

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.

Michael Korda

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Victor Hugo