Great Man Quotes

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one…

– William Cowper

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.

– Mencius

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

– Oscar Wilde

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

– James Russell Lowell

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

– Alexander Chase

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.

– Mark Shriver

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.

– Mencius

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

– Judy Biggert

A great man is always willing to be little.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Victor Hugo