#great men

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

Great hopes make great men. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#great #great men #hopes #make #men

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#animal #being #between #body #dominance

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#been #god #great #great men #happen

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#almost #anything #between #determination #distinction

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men. ↗

— Frank Press

#great men #gutenberg #men #richter #very

Few great men would have got past personnel. ↗