Greater Quotes

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.

The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

You can make a good living while serving a greater good.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

No man however great is greater than his people

You are a dynamic whole greater than the sum of your parts. By integrating your body, mind, and emotions through training, you reshape your life.

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.