exemplary individuals Quotes

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.