Greater Quotes

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

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.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.