Greater Quotes

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

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

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

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.

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And we're no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don't do it so that other will think more of them. They do it because there is no greater joy.

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.