Top 1200 Greater Quotes & Sayings

In 'Condition Zero,' failure has greater consequences and success offers greater rewards.

Communism seemed to be an ideal experiment in trying to achieve a state where all persons have greater democracy. I might add, like other persons here and elsewhere, I found myself concerned with the problem of increasing need for greater economic and political democracy for greater numbers of people.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

With more success comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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.

As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.

I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

Do not attempt to accomplish greater results by a greater effort of your little understanding, but by a greater understanding of your little effort. The greater your understanding of the power within yourself, the less effort you need to make in order to achieve.

To me it is harder to play a real person, but when you do it and you feel good about it and the person feels good about it, I think that's doubly rewarding. So the challenge is greater, the risk is greater, but the reward is greater as well.

For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.

There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

I really believe that an awakening, a greater perspective on our lives and existence is happening. It's really the firing of archetypes that are already built into our brains, we just are able to awaken to a point where we can see a greater beauty in the world, a greater connection and sense of well being. This is what the mystics speak about. The insights fire us up into a greater consciousness on the planet. So it is a greater consciousness at the same time and a greater awareness of our spiritual nature. That is what the 'aha' is.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

You can walk with the Shintoist through his sacred groves, or chant an affirmation with the Hindu on the banks of the Ganges...and still be a student of Unity... As the Christ becomes greater to you in Unity, the Buddha also becomes greater, and the greater the Buddha becomes, the greater the Christ becomes.

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

The greater the trust within the couple, the greater the opening to share in love.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Greater is he who suffers through the pain and comes through the other side improved. Greater is he who accepts discouragement and keeps forward momentum, never retreating. Greater is he who sees the light at the end of the tunnel and keeps their eye on the light. Greater is he who gets knocked off his feet and gets back up, dusts himself off and gets back in the fight. Life is tough, but you are stronger.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment, to greater and greater autonomy of individuals, greater and greater development of sense organs and nervous systems conveying and processing information about the state of the organism's surroundings, and finally greater and greater consciousness. You can call this direction progress or by some other name.

In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.

The greater the value of what we want, the greater the sacrifice we will have to make.

Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than science, business and law because they constitute the common denominator of all of them.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.