Top 100 Quotes About Greater Things
#1. By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
Samuel Johnson
#2. Women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.
Emmuska Orczy
#3. The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.
Marianne Williamson
#4. I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
Neil Gaiman
#5. There is no shame in asking for help; it is one the most courageous things you'll ever do and will lead to greater connection with those around you.
Laura Lane
#6. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.
Paulo Coelho
#7. There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
Mario Cuomo
#9. An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.
Christian Slater
#11. People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.
Maya Angelou
#12. Sometimes, when things take longer than you thought they would, it's just a gentle reminder from your greater self that you have more time than you thought, and that there's a journey to enjoy.
Mike Dooley
#13. Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.
Wallace D. Wattles
#15. I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
Ken Robinson
#16. Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
Jon Lord
#17. Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.
Jeff Koons
#18. Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
#19. I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.
Rufus Sewell
#20. Thank You, Lord, that You are with me in everything that I face. No matter what comes against me, You are greater and more powerful. I ask You to be with me in the things I face today. I praise You and Your greatness in the midst of all that seems large and looming in my life.
Stormie O'martian
#21. Sometimes I feel I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in epic movie.
Shon Mehta
#22. There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.
Crixus
#23. Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.
E. Stanley Jones
#24. Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasion? If she would not do this, then she must do great things, she must do something greater.
Henry James
#25. I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.
Michael J. Saylor
#26. You would die of boredom in my body." "No, I'd take that young thing out for a spin and liven things up a little." I roll my eyes. "I'm sure you would. You'd have me screwing my way through greater Atlanta." "Breakin' hearts and blowin' minds! Or blowin' something," she says with a devilish wink.
M. Leighton
#27. We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.
Shane Claiborne
#28. The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza
#29. There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa," he whispered. "I can't afford those things.
Sarah Brocious
#30. When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things ...
Rene Descartes
#31. There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.
Marta Mrotek
#32. And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.
PJ Harvey
#33. Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.
Meher Baba
#34. We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ...
Eleanor Roosevelt
#35. Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
Sextus Propertius
#36. All other things equal, advertisements containing cute babies, sexy endorsers, and fear-inducing stimuli are typically attention grabbing and will likely yield greater recall.
Gad Saad
#37. Like an old person, the Old Soul is easily tired by pressure, tension and conflict. To them, the matters of everyday life are unsurprising, commonplace and inconsequential in the greater scheme of things.
Aletheia Luna
#38. There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
Wayne Dyer
#39. When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.
Thomas Dunn English
#40. What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.
Benjamin Disraeli
#41. Death is not the end of things, my sister. It is the beginning of a greater adventure than this small life you cherish can hold. And beyond these shores of death, there are great ships that fly from the golden seas to the skies of pearl.
Douglas Clegg
#42. Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
Francis Bacon
#43. If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.
Claude Debussy
#45. Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.
Eli Siegel
#46. As we work together as a team, God grows our dreams into something greater than we can accomplish alone.
Dillon Burroughs
#47. Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
Meister Eckhart
#48. A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. When all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
Galen Beckett
#50. Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny
something greater than you could've imagined.
C.S. Lewis
#51. The greater the vision you have in mind, the grander the things you experience in life as a reality
Keerthi Singhe
#52. I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.
Clarice Lispector
#53. A greater sense of do-it-yourself (DIY) politics is exposed by the fact Cascadians are more likely to disagree that "voting is the only way people like me can have a say about how the government runs things" (54 percent disagree versus 37 percent, RoNA).
Douglas Todd
#54. There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
Francis Bacon
#55. I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
Milton Friedman
#56. When we commit our lives to the Lord,
He lives in us, He gives us grace and power to accomplish far greater things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#57. I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.
Jeet Banerjee
#58. The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
Frank Herbert
#59. A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#60. Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.
Francois Fenelon
#61. Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.
Imogen Heap
#62. Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.
Galileo Galilei
#63. The hard truth is, the life thing moments happen. They are the details, the surprises, the every now and again "dang it" moments that are necessary for you to be able to appreciate good times and accomplish greater things.
Jaha Knight
#64. I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.
Robert Henri
#65. Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else.
Roger Deakins
#66. I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.
Caroline Myss
#67. But Thou who fillest all things, fillest Thou them with Thy whole self? or, since all things cannot contain Thee wholly, do they contain part of Thee? and all at once the same part? or each its own part, the greater more, the smaller less?
Augustine Of Hippo
#68. There is no greater love than a maker's for the things she makes. Especially when they grow to be something she never imagined.
Hannu Rajaniemi
#69. The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.
Nick Clegg
#70. 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
#71. It would be a far greater sin for you to drift along in a haze of moderation than to start a fire or two. Go fuck some things up.
Cary Tennis
#72. The notion must be put aside that emotions are irrational and we must see emotions for their true function. This will not rob the emotional content, it will merely explain it. Some things when more deeply explained provide greater sources of personal and corporate pleasure, not less.
Leviak B. Kelly
#73. 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.
Sylvia Earle
#74. What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create:
a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.
Ed Ayres
#75. The more you say true things, the more you will be respected; the more you will respected, the more you shall feel to be obliged to say even truer things! Every true path at the beginning opens the paths of even greater and stronger truths in the future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investigating the possibilities of cloning. Because nothing would be more useful than having multiples of me, and that way, I could do all of the things I'd like to do in the short amount of time we all have here.
Ezra Miller
#77. Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.
Marianne Williamson
#78. The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
Mencius
#79. In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
Xavi
#80. Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.
Tom Riley
#81. Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
Rudyard Kipling
#82. The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all ... It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well ... you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.
Bob Buford
#83. God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.
Smith Wigglesworth
#84. One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him.
Walter E. Williams
#85. God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
Mother Teresa
#86. They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?
Neil Gaiman
#87. Faithfulness in little things will prepare you for greater tasks from God.
Jim George
#88. And I won't get to see Hikari or Aimi again? How can that be fair? What have I done to deserve this?"-
"It's not what you've done, Sam. It's who you are. You are destined for greater things because of who you are.
Phillip W. Simpson
#89. 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
#90. All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato
#91. Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Epictetus
#93. The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#94. God is at work preparing us for the greater things yet to come. When I trust in him with all my heart, I can be assured that all things can be used for good when we give our lives to him.
Michelle Wulfestieg
#95. Now understand me well
it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary. [from "Song of the Open Road"]
Walt Whitman
#96. 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.
Benjamin Haydon
#97. There will be no danger of idolatry. The earth and the heavens and all things will declare the glory of God, and the essence of our joy in them will be joy in him. What makes our reward truly great is the greater fullness of our fellowship with God.
John Piper
#98. Reason judges in one way, custom in another. Reason judges by the light of truth, so that by right judgment it subjects lesser things to greater. Custom is often swayed by agreeable habits, so that it esteems as greater what truth reveals as lower.
Augustine Of Hippo
#99. The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
Herman Melville
#100. The war drops its question mark. Memos are distributed. The collections must be protected. A small cadre of couriers has begun moving things to country estates. Locks and keys are in greater demand than ever.
Anthony Doerr
