#great man

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

— Olive Schreiner

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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

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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

— B. R. Ambedkar

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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

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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

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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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

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

— Alexander Smith

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