“Great causes and little men go ill together.”
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
The Indian Annual Register Vol.1 (January-June 1939)
“Commitment to great causes makes great men.”
"A Time for Moral Courage", Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
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Tom Crean (basketball coach) (1966) American college basketball coach
Foreword to Winning Basketball : Techniques and Drills for Playing Better Offensive Basketball (2004) by Ralph L. Pim
Context: I am a firm believer that you can't have people in your program who just want to win; you must have people who are committed to winning. Players that learn the value of hard work, commitment, teamwork, and sacrifice are the ones that make their teams great.
Harry Markowitz (1927) American economist
On Winston Churchill http://www.amazon.com/review/R7UQOFFBBBUNN/
“I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.”
Max Brooks book World War Z
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.”
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Ainsi les postes éminents rendent les grands hommes encore plus grands, et les petits beaucoup plus petits.
Aphorism 95
Les Caractères (1688), De l'Homme
Thomas Hughes (priest) (1838–1911) British missionary
Sayings of Muhammad on the subject of marriage, quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam.
Dictionary of Islam
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
