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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.