Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

Walter Savage Landor
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  2. Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know. - Roy T. Bennett

  3. When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you. - Walter Payton

  4. It takes a great man to be a good listener. - Calvin Coolidge

  5. Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have. - Anonymous

More Quotes By Walter Savage Landor
  1. No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

  2. What is reading but silent conversation.

  3. Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

  4. The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

  5. When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

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