Top 100 Greater Than Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
This is right.
Veronica Roth
#3. One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. We must care about unbelievers because God does. Love leaves no choice. The Bible says, "There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear."18 A parent will run into a burning building to save a child because their love for that child is greater than their fear.
Rick Warren
#5. Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually.
Edgar Cayce
#6. We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain.
Joey W. Hill
#7. The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Thomas Malthus
#8. An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.
Ameen Rihani
#9. True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.
Eckhart Tolle
#10. These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.
Jim Michaels
#11. I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.
Laura Restrepo
#12. The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#13. How can we do that?" I replied. "You were the one who said if we believe in something greater than our
Malala Yousafzai
#14. There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#15. There is no disaster greater than not being content; There is no misfortune greater than being covetous.
Lao-Tzu
#16. After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Philip Zimbardo
#17. He brushed her lips with a gentle kiss. Please, Alyssa. You have fought by my side before, do so one last time, and I promise you the reward will be far greater than we ever dreamed.
Dianne Duvall
#18. The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.
Amy Alcott
#19. Nothing inspires me greater than the silly behaviour and crazy ideas of my best friends...
Mykyta Isagulov
#20. Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere
#21. But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
Sheryl Sandberg
#22. Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).
Ralph Nader
#23. I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.
Joel Osteen
#24. The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
Kwame Nkrumah
#25. It is said that the senses are great; greater than the senses is the mind; greater than the mind is the intelligence; but what is greater than the intelligence, is the real Self.
Amit Kulshreshtha
#26. For if there was one human condition that Madame Mallory understood, it was jealousy, the intense pain of realising there are those in the world who simply are greater than we are, surpassing us, in some profound way, in all our accomplishments.
Richard C. Morais
#27. Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
Paul Mellon
#28. When you accept that there is no success greater than inner-peace and contentment, you instantly qualify yourself for more success.
Bryant McGill
#29. One reason is that a story exerts a power beyond the obvious. The whole is so much greater than the sum of the parts - the facts, the events, the context - that a story creates a deep resonance.
Anonymous
#30. This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain
Margaret Of Cortona
#31. Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
Victor Hugo
#32. Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#33. There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#34. You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.
Kahlil Gibran
#35. The fiction, as always, is secondary to the history; the real women are always more complex and more conflicted, greater than the heroines of the novel, just as real women now, as then, are often greater than they are reported, sometimes greater than the world wants them to be.
Philippa Gregory
#36. The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.
Paullina Simons
#37. There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao-Tzu
#38. I don't think there's any loneliness greater than the loneliness to be found in a bad marriage. In solitary confinement, everyone knows you're lonely and feels sorry for you. In a bad marriage loneliness is your darkest secret, one you dare not even share with your spouse.
Daniel Quinn
#39. There are no bystanders in life [ ... ] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
Sonia Sotomayor
#40. Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself.
Stephen Richards
#41. Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
Homer
#42. Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.
Mike Caro
#43. Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.
Brene Brown
#44. The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Carl Lewis
#45. Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.
Richard M. Weaver
#46. I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
Julius Erving
#47. Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.
Guy Finley
#48. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
Walt Whitman
#49. Great is language ... it is the mightiest of the sciences,
It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth ... and of men and women ... and of all qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth ... it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.
Walt Whitman
#50. The King's grace is greater than you know, and the law is become less stern than aforetime; or else no choice would be given you but to abide here to your life's end.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#51. I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field ... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV ... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#52. One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.
Sheryl WuDunn
#53. Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.
Bryant McGill
#54. The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.
Louis Farrakhan
#55. The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.
Joichi Ito
#56. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart.
H.B. Paull
#57. They reciprocated the great and saving lie
that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things
willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#58. Men and women who live in America ... have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.
David O. McKay
#59. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
#60. The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.
Keith Jarrett
#62. Helping save other children of humanity ... should always weigh greater than all the world politics, religions and business endeavors. We either help save each other or watch our demise. It won't get better by itself!
Timothy Pina
#63. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you
John McCain
#64. Now the world runs on swiftly to great tidings. And one of men, even of Beor's house, shall indeed come, and the Girdle of Melian shall not restrain him, for doom greater than my power shall send him; and the songs that shall spring from that coming shall endure when all Middle-earth is changed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#65. There's nothing greater than having a heart filled with love...& eyes filled with light
J.L. Hunt
#66. I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself
P.C. Cast
#67. Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.
Peter Kropotkin
#68. It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
Herodotus
#70. There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
Stephen Fry
#71. If, on the other hand, you listen to your own inner voice, to your own inner wisdom, which is far greater than anyone else's as far as you are concerned, you will not go wrong, and you will know what to do with your life. Then time is no longer relevant.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#72. When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.
Taylor Swift
#73. Some might call me a fool; I hope when there is no hope to be found, I love when there is no one left, and I chase the the dreams I will never achieve. But I know that if I keep reaching for things that seem impossible, I can rise to something greater than I had ever hoped.
Anonymous
#74. The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
Mark Hyman
#75. How could it end any other way? The beast was greater than they were, a force of nature. The beast was like the river, eternal. It had no doubts, no thoughts, no dreams or plans.
George R R Martin
#76. Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself ...
Joe McMahon
#77. The truth is, we are part of something greater than our own personal preferences or felt needs. We are part of a worldwide family of believers who belong to each other with a history and a heritage defined by a loving heavenly Father.
Ross Parsley
#78. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Jimmy Carter
#79. Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends
Luis J. Rodriguez
#80. The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
Samuel Johnson
#81. They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.
Geoffrey Wood
#82. After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
Gary Webb
#84. what is lost when the ends are interpreted to justify the means is always greater than what we sought to preserve with our unjustifiable actions.
A.D. Bloom
#85. Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.
Bill Johnson
#86. There's no emotion greater than fear. No ache greater than grief. No sound greater than silence.
Jay McLean
#87. The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.
Andrew Loomis
#88. Life has other plans for us, greater than the ones we have for ourselves.
Karina Halle
#89. I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#90. Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
Yann Martel
#91. The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.
Michael Bloomberg
#92. U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.
Edward Teller
#93. I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."
pg 287
Veronica Roth
#94. That distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present.
Leon Logothetis
#95. For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony ...
Lotte Lehmann
#96. There are no struggles greater than those we place before ourselves.
E. Annette Blake
#97. One is always greater than hundred because without one there is no hundred
ABC
#98. Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.
Samuel L. Jackson
#99. The University of Life is greater than the universities of men.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. I live in the space where God is. There is no question that that is why I am where I am, and why I have had the success that I've had, is because I allow myself to be guided by that which is greater than myself - than my personality.
Oprah Winfrey
