significant individuals Quotes

Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

There are people you remember and people you dream of.

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve others. We become more substantive as we serve others—indeed, it is easier to “find” ourselves because there is so much more of us to find!

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.