Greater Quotes

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

One must seek the shortest way and the fastest means to get back home-to turn the spark within into a blaze, to be merged in and to identify with that greater fire which ignited the spark.

Everybody wants to be winners - you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can't see it.

We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.

Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.

The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

You are greater than you know.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

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

I think that love should be greater than your lust for each other.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that I'm, well, not only Queen of the Gods, I'm better than he is!

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

Wake up knowing that Allah is greater than any obstacle you may face today.

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.

Your sin is not greater than God’s mercy.

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone

Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.