Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Related topics

deal everybody great men way

Related quotes

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. View quote
Mark Twain
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. View quote
Sydney Smith