9 Quotes Tagged: great-men

...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man — if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could — and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin]

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men — this and nothing else is its duty

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

...a great man. But...not quite great enough.

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