Quotes on Greater

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug.

He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,_x000D_ _x000D_ Greater are none beneath the Sun _x000D_ _x000D_ Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.