Great Men Quotes
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Thomas Carlyle
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The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
James G. Frazer
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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
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.
George Stillman Hillard
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
Erica Jong
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Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
Thomas Carlyle
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A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.
Georges Doriot
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Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
Thomas Carlyle
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Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.
Abraham Myerson
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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
Rudyard Kipling
