Greater Quotes
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.
Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.
I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.
Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.
There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.
There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.
Don't be limited by what has been. Be inspired knowing that what could be is far greater than your wildest dreams.
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts.
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.
There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.
You have to live to the responsibility of the person who has won, which is even greater than the responsibility of a person who has lost.
For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.
It is simply that we treat Japanese history, the history of the Japanese people and its unique culture with greater respect and interest. This generates enormous interest in Russia!
Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.
Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.
I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.
Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.
With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.
Ponder the depth and the power of loyalty-the ability to serve and support a cause greater than yourself.
The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.
Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.
There is no greater anti-Semite that the Jewish one, and none hates the Jewish people more than the Jewish traitor and apostate.
I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.