Greater Quotes

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

There is no greater monster than reason.

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.