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Great Man Quotes
What greatness is made of.
These great man quotes look past titles and achievements toward character: keeping a child's-heart, attending to a "greater self," and the unseen support that makes greatness possible. For more, see our Legacy quotes page.
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The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
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My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal.
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Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
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Oliver Reed was a great man who did things his own way. He used to come into Harveys, my restaurant in Wandsworth, and sit on the floor to have a drink before going to the table.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive.
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