Fredrik Bajer Quotes

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

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

It is not the places which grace men, but men the places.

When Nelson Mandela came into the room, he changed the room.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Playing with Tom Watson, I grew up a little bit. Even if he didn't say something to you, even if he didn't give you advice, you have grown up just watching him. It was great.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.