Greatest Man Quotes

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

... the greatest man who walks in America.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

He is the greatest man I have ever known.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

And I would never set myself out to be the best parent or the greatest man.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.

[Referring to Calvin Coolidge:] He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.