The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

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.

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

I’m a huge fan of the films of the ’70s and even into the ’80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people’s lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

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

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Whether you do or think you do, it’s the same thing. You spend what you haven’t got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven’t got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.

The people of that age were phrase slaves. The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us. There was a magic in words greater than the conjurer’s art. So befuddled and chaotic were their minds that the utterance of a single word could negative the generalizations of a lifetime of serious research and thought. Such a word was the adjective UTOPIAN. The mere utterance of it could damn any scheme, no matter how sanely conceived, of economic amelioration or regeneration.

The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made… He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

My personal view is always I’m in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That’s after all what we were elected for.

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you’re of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

The greater the number of people present, the less likely an individual is to help someone in need because it is easier to rationalize that someone else will do it.

The greatest lessons in life can be learned on the baseball field.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living

The greatest novels are those that leave us with more questions than answers

I consider the Arabs not as foes but as cousins. In any event, when we are in a savage clash with them, they are, to a greater extent, a sort of family – with all the issues of a family. We need to live with them.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us

The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us

The New World failures may have been greater, the disasters more excessive, the consequences more brutal, but there’s a bounce in every fall, a spit on the palm’s new start for every setback

The Swiss—also a federation of semi-independent states—are even more attached to their guns than Texans, and they have a greater number per capita, but death by shooting is so rare they don’t even collate the figures

America is Europe’s greatest invention

Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent where fear of losing what we have is greater than the ambition to make it anew

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine

But I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.

To be able to speak, listen, and understand the language of love is a greater education than any degree.

‘You’re a great man, General, greater than anyone,’ she told him. ‘But love is still too big for you.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

The strength you have within you is greater than any obstacle.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone ‘happy’, no greater flattery than to grant him a ‘vein of melancholy’… This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

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

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

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

In my earnest thoughts, I must remain to collect as much Gold as possible from this great land.

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step – because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

My fans expect me to be greater and keep being great.

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.

Moreover, why Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, when they rise in the evening, appear greater than when they disappear and reappear with the sun.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

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.

It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents

Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, than a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct we must begin with undeceiving.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.

The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.

The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

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.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing…when we save our children, we save ourselves.

For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.

I was born with something that appealed to an audience at that particular time…I acted instinctively. I’ve had one of the greatest schools of all – a whole row of great, great directors.

The whole world is very bright. The darker the clouds, the greater the light.

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I’ve made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that’s greater than other people and greater than myself.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that’s greater than yourself means anything is possible.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.

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

Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

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

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.