Top 100 Quotes About Greater
#1. Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.
James Hansen
#2. I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#3. The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is ...
Aldous Huxley
#4. It is a great joy to open a new path; and then, it is a greater joy to see new people on this new path; but the greatest joy is to see the new people opening many more brand new paths via this new path!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.
Walt Whitman
#6. The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
Kwame Nkrumah
#8. The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts ...
Chretien De Troyes
#9. I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.
Joel Osteen
#10. Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).
Ralph Nader
#11. And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.
Sheryl Sandberg
#13. In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.
Richard Flanagan
#14. Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.
Eric Liu
#15. While I strongly encourage my readers to take advantage of the Internet and social networking platforms to gain a greater understanding of their personal finances, it is extremely important to be safe, smart, and responsible when it comes to sharing, discussing, and managing your finances online.
Alexa Von Tobel
#16. Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u ...
Nicki Minaj
#17. Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.
Ole Hallesby
#18. If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
Ted Dekker
#19. But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
Sheryl Sandberg
#20. The country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.
Barack Obama
#21. Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere
#22. The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.
George R R Martin
#23. A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Nothing inspires me greater than the silly behaviour and crazy ideas of my best friends...
Mykyta Isagulov
#25. We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn't it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?
David Baldacci
#26. To re-triple your efforts is to wield greater exploits
Sunday Adelaja
#27. You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.
Masashi Kishimoto
#28. Anything that will enable us to express greater life, greater happiness, greater power
so long as it does not harm anyone
must be the Will of God for us.
Ernest Holmes
#29. My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.
Kanye West
#30. We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Alain De Botton
#31. If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Gautama Buddha
#32. The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
Brother Lawrence
#33. Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.
T.F. Hodge
#34. The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.
Amy Alcott
#35. In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young women and men - together, to nurture freedom and dialogue, to create new bridges of respect and understanding, for greater tolerance and cooperation,
Irina Bokova
#36. Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Karin Slaughter
#37. Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.
Samuel P. Huntington
#38. 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
#39. As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing with people.
Steve Prefontaine
#40. The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.
Erich Gamma
#41. I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#42. Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.
Kevin Kelly
#43. There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.
Shaun Hick
#45. A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson
#46. I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.
Kevin McCarthy
#47. There is no greater pleasure than having a dog. And that's a scientific fact!
Louis Sabin
#48. After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Philip Zimbardo
#49. Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
Lactantius
#50. The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
Friedrich Schiller
#51. Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement ... We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
Paul Tillich
#52. If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.
Kathy Calvin
#53. Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.
Ronald Reagan
#54. Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
Daniel Inouye
#55. We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government
a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.
Gerald R. Ford
#56. one could not attain greater personal excellence without also paving the way for everyone else in society to attain it as well.
Christopher Phillips
#57. Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
Derek Bok
#58. Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#60. Among typical Indigos, you can find exceptionally open-minded individuals who develop the world to greater levels. Some are respected authorities. Others, sadly, are less successful; unable to withstand the huge responsibility and pressure that come with the precious gift of being special.
Sahara Sanders
#61. A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.
Shaunti Feldhahn
#62. What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
#63. Death may be by choclate, but I' ve discovered something greater: Death by luggage.
Isabel Fraire
#64. I felt that our survival was owed to our slightness, that we danced through ruinous currents as dry leaves do, and were not capsized because the ruin we rode upon was meant for greater things.
Marilynne Robinson
#65. Constant endeavor to please God comes from love to God, called forth by wonder at the divine work of creation that surrounds us and by a greater wonder at the divine work of redemption that saves us.
J.I. Packer
#66. When the chips are down, you are given
the chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that's how you roll.
Jessica Lave
#67. 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
#68. There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.
Cordell Hull
#69. The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Susan B. Anthony
#70. Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
Alphonsus Liguori
#71. We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
Eric Hoffer
#72. No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.
Wallace D. Wattles
#73. There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.
Victoria Glendinning
#74. I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.
Sasha Grey
#75. The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
#76. One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.
Logan Lerman
#78. If you have suffered more than your fair share of difficulties in life, perhaps you are being prepared to serve some greater purpose that will require you to be equipped with the wisdom you have acquired through your trials.
Robin S. Sharma
#79. 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
#80. It is indeed a much greater thing that I do now than I have ever done.
Charles Dickens
#81. A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.
Paul Yingling
#82. At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books.
Umberto Eco
#83. 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
#84. There is No Greater Satisfaction God greater then mother.
Suraj Dahal
#85. The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus
#86. [N]obody is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics can not relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they hold tight to the belief that the word [sic] has meaning and, when things go wrong for them, they consequently adopt the inverse attitude.
Muriel Barbery
#87. Be it further understood that all mortals who would receive the Dark Gifts should be beautiful in person so that the insult to God might be greater when the Dark Trick is done. Three
Anne Rice
#88. Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.
Angela Merici
#89. 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
#90. Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.
James Madison
#91. 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
#92. The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#93. There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.
Robert M. Hensel
#94. No finer, greater gift in the world than that ... when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one.
Homer
#95. How can we do that?" I replied. "You were the one who said if we believe in something greater than our
Malala Yousafzai
#96. You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
Victor Hugo
#97. There is no disaster greater than not being content; There is no misfortune greater than being covetous.
Lao-Tzu
#98. Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Phaedrus
#99. Yea, if a man possess all things he cannot be content, - the greater his possessions the less will be his contentment, for the heart cannot be satisfied with possessions, but rather in detachment from all things and in poverty of spirit.
San Juan De La Cruz
#100. I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.
Donald Miller
