Quotes on Greater

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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.

Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.