Top 67 Greater Than Ourselves Quotes
#1. Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.
Alain De Botton
#2. Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.
Louise Hay
#3. There are no bystanders in life [ ... ] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
Sonia Sotomayor
#4. Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered.
Melody Beattie
#5. My dad always said we're at the mercy of something greater than ourselves and whatever humanity we don't show to others, we pay for. We're paying for.
Courtney Summers
#6. By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#7. Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.
Timothy M. Dolan
#8. I think we all have to believe in something greater than ourselves. Something as distant and magnificent as the stars.
Leila Rasheed
#9. When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors ...
Russell M. Nelson
#10. We're all just flowers. Small, nameless flowers. Little, barely budding things supported by something far greater than ourselves. Even so, we all dream of the day when we will eventually blossom. Free. Under the wide open sky...
Masami Tsuda
#11. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
Bill W.
#12. Genuine contentment is found in performing tasks that take us out of ourselves, for a purpose greater than ourselves. Only when the personality is subordinated to a higher goal do we attain the serenity we are looking for.
Sydney J. Harris
#13. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#14. We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a community far greater than ourselves, and the conviction that each and everyone of us can meaningfully contribute to solving even the most seemingly intractable problems.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#15. The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.
Dana Gioia
#16. Lack of power, that was our dilemma. we had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power Greater Than Ourselves.
Bill Wilson
#17. Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves
Lorna Goodison
#18. We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
Charles Eisenstein
#19. Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.
Brennan Manning
#20. Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.
Alain De Botton
#21. Believing in something greater than ourselves isn't crazy. It's proof we're sane. Look how vast the galaxy is. Don't you have to admit we can't be the greatest power within it?
Claudia Gray
#22. Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#23. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
Dan Brown
#24. We are doorways, openings into something greater than ourselves, something that we don't understand and will never understand. We have nothing precious in and of ourselves. We are only precious in that we are part of something that is too big to know.
Eleanor Morse
#25. Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.
Emily Carr
#26. Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.
Jonathan Nolan
#27. I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not.
Michael Cox
#28. Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#29. Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves, and there is nothing that gives us greater pride and happiness than to think, to feel, and to say what is ours.
Erich Fromm
#30. The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings ... The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#31. Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge - we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#33. We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
Confucius
#34. I think it's important for each of us to examine the reasons why we have survived our individual challenges, obstacles, and trials. It's not always easy to come to terms with the fact that God always has a greater purpose for us than we can have for ourselves.
Stu Jones
#35. The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.
Wright Morris
#36. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing ... when we save our children, we save ourselves
Margaret Mead
#37. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#38. Because the plan God has for each of our lives isn't always the same plan we have for ourselves, Grace. Sometimes, our deaths have more of an impact than our births. It can inspire people to do great things, even greater than they would have had the deaths not happened at all.
S.L. Naeole
#39. We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.
James E. Faust
#40. We have this inane desire to belong to something that is greater than we are on our own. That desire is so strong that we can fool ourselves into believing things that aren't true.
Micalea Smeltzer
#41. What greater fetter to anchoring ourselves to the false notion of self could there be than a selfie? It is named after an illusion!
Chris Matakas
#42. There is no greater gift we can give to ourselves and those who passed before us than to live our lives at the highest level possible, and to interact with those around us in a way that makes us, and them, BRIGHTER.
Heidi Tankersley
#43. There are no struggles greater than those we place before ourselves.
E. Annette Blake
#44. As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.
Elena Ferrante
#45. What greater glory can we anticipate than to stand before the throne of God, to humble ourselves before His great and incomparable majesty.
Billy Graham
#46. When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.
Jean Vanier
#47. Life has other plans for us, greater than the ones we have for ourselves.
Karina Halle
#48. Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.
Gish Jen
#49. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#50. The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett Marden
#51. Chapels are emergency rooms for the soul. They are the one place we can reliably go to find who we are and what we should be doing with our lives - usually by finding all we aren't, and what is much greater than us, to which we can only give ourselves up.
Geraldine Brooks
#52. Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!
John Vianney
#53. There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.
Erich Fromm
#54. Such efforts show the truth of the remark of St. Ambrose: that the saints were no less liable than ourselves to fall into faults; but that they had greater care to practise virtue, and to correct the faults into which they fell.
Candide Chalippe
#55. 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.
Archibald MacLeish
#56. The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]
Arthur Schopenhauer
#57. Somehow we know that there are no greater stories than those penned by God, and we find ourselves distraught by the sad fact that we have chosen to live those lesser stories.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition.
David Thomson
#59. According to Viktor Frankl, a person finds identity only to the extent that "he commits himself to something beyond himself, to a cause greater than himself."4 The meaning of our lives emerges in the surrender of ourselves to an adventure of becoming who we are not yet.
Brennan Manning
#60. Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.
Bilal Tanweer
#61. The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
Mencius
#62. A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.
Victoria Osteen
#63. How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?
Orhan Pamuk
#64. God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.
Lucy Larcom
#65. There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude ... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
Charles De Secondat
#66. We should be reminding ourselves that no matter how many problems may be facing us, the One Who is with us is greater than all those who oppose us.
Joyce Meyer
