Top 1200 Greater Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The opportunity that is unique [to our] time is what inspires me to do everything I can to move things forward. This is the first time that we have the capacity to understand our place in the greater scheme of things to the extent that we do.

I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

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

Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

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

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

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

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

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

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 wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

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

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

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

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

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

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

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.

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