Greater Quotes

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

To me an anthology gives meaning to the phrase, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Even if those individual parts are really f-ing hot.

The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity than any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

The bigger the dream, the greater the opportunity

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

Greater diversity drives better business results.

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.

Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.

Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.

I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.