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Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

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.
- Mother Teresa

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein

The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In order to succeed, your desire for success should
be greater than your fear of failure.
- Bill Cosby

You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I am determined to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington

There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu

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

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald

The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes

No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus

The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes

The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence
than to be surprised at nothing.
- Josh Billings

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview
with a doctor than from any human experience.
- Alice James

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
- Michael Korda

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
- Edmund Burke

Time extracts various values from a painter's work.
When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten,
and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
- Henri Matisse

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
- Edward F. Halifax

It is like the seed put in the soil -
the more one sows,
the greater the harvest.
- Orison Swett Marden

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery,
and you lose for certain; and the greater the number
of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
- Adam Smith

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred
on an American than to have a public school named after him.
- Herbert Hoover

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism,
and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
- Leo Tolstoy

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
- Epicurus

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Real love is never a selfish emotion.
If you want something from someone -
especially if that something is sex -
what you are feeling is not true love.
True love is about wanting happiness for the person you love -
and not about seeking happiness for yourself.
Fortunately, in most cases our own loving presence
is the greatest gift we can give to a person we love.
Nonetheless, the litmus test of love is knowing
we would choose never to see that person again
if we believed that distance would bring them greater happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess,
we act and think in vain,
and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
- Joseph Addison

A conversation is greater than
the sum of its participants,
and can take on a life of its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
- Aristotle

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they
evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
- Francis Atterbury

No delusion is greater than the notion that method
and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit,
either in science or in practical life.
- Thomas Huxley

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates
greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired
from their jobs on its behalf.
- John McCarthy

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive
to give your best effort,
eventually you will overcome your immediate problems
and find you are ready for greater challenges.
- Pat Riley

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
- David Blaine

The heart never grows better by age;
I fear rather worse,
always harder.
A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave
will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
- Lord Chesterfield

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction
automatically brings greater peace and understanding,
although it may help in that regard.
- William Kirby

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.
- Robert Ludlum

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind,
knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.
- Bob Ney

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace,
which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
- Frank B. Kellogg

My travels led me to where I am today.
Sometimes these steps have felt painful,
difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
- Diana Ross

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it
makes of you to accomplish it.
What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
- Jim Rohn

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he
brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created
greater pressure for providers not to participate.
- David Obey

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

Always continue the climb.
It is possible for you to do whatever you choose,
if you first get to know who you are and are willing
to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In all known time there has never been a greater monster
or miracle than the human being.
- Bryant H. McGill

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy
than by being unfortunate.
- Seth Green

Time makes fools of us all.
Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
- E. T. Bell

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
- Henry George

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate
unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
- William Vickrey

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism,
as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
- Andrew Eldritch

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what
works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
- Vera Wang