“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
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's souls.”
Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”
Henry Fielding book The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Source: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
“Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
What I Think (1956), p. 55 http://books.google.com/books?id=3OchAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Men+may+be+born+free+they+cannot+be+born+wise+and+it+is+the+duty+of+the+university+to+make+the+free+wise%22&pg=PA55#v=onepage
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
