Greater Quotes

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.

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

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

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

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.