Greater Quotes
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.
When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.
The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
If you have unfilled dreams and visions of greater prosperity and success tucked in a corner of your mind, don't keep them there any longer. Dare to bring them out and dust them off.
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
I obviously am cognizant of the fact that being handsome gives me greater breadth of opportunity. I'd hope that what I bring to the table far surpasses just being handsome.
Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.
It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface.
There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.
Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.
What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.
Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.
We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.
Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.
Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.
Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.
Cooking today is far greater than it ever was, and more importantly, a chef's role today has changed dramatically over the last decade.
There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.
Herein, lies the key to love. Love builds bridges. Soul exists because God loves It. Soul equals Soul; no one Soul is greater than another. Experience the greatest love of all.
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.
Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.