Top 1200 Greater Good Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.

HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.

The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International Good Deeds Day has become a global annual tradition of giving.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.

With all the hurts they've been through, they find a loving way and a way to put their mind on something greater. That's what makes a good artist, a good singer: because you can hear the hurt in their voice, and you can hear the love in their voice.

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.

The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise.

In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do more to help achieve such ends.

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

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.

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.