Top 1200 Greater Good Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

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

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

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

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?

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.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

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.

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

Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

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

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

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

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

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

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

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

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.

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

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

...we should never judge anyone; a 'wicked' action which we may see as 'evil', may be necessary for the greater good. Where would the story of Christ be without Judas? His actions were ultimately good; a part of the plan.

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

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

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

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

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

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 pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.

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

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

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

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

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

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

There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any kind of utility, who can discern no good to alleviate the ill with which they suppose it pregnant; who cannot be persuaded that it ought in any sense to be viewed as an increase of capital lest it should be inferred, that the more debt the more capital, the greater the burthens the greater the blessings of the community.

It's a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good.

Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which is why we are far more powerful than ever before but we don't seem to be much happier.

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

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

Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.

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

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

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

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

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

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

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

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

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

The benefits of organic coffee are significant, as chemical-free soil is good soil. This extends to healthy trees which result in good beans with greater antioxidants and less chemical residues.