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  • I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.

    Men   Thinking   People  
  • It is a far greater thing that I do now, than I've ever done before.

  • We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

    Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.29, New World Library
  • Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

  • Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

    "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. 2003.
  • Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

  • I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

    Natsume Soseki (2012). “Kokoro”, p.110, Courier Corporation
  • I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend.

  • It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat.

  • There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.

  • "Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

    Art   Believe   Ego  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.37, e-artnow
  • In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on

  • A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

    Book   Men   Great Things  
    Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”
  • What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?

    Mean   People   Problem  
    "Ysabella Brave"/"We Are a Powder Drink", August 20, 2008.
  • Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

  • Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness.

  • I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core of that character values morals, honor and things like that. You want to inspire them to look beyond what is superficial and try to find that greater thing.

    Character   Kids   Tree  
  • O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

    Art   Greed   Stronger  
    Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”
  • 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.

    Prayer   Work   Knows  
    Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image
  • I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend. The times call for great things, but great things in the noblest and most redemptive sense are predicted upon tolerance, love, respect, understanding, dignity, prayer, God.

  • I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

    Childhood   Missing   Way  
    Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.132, Hachette UK
  • We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?

    Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.397, Penguin
  • Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

    Light   Hands   Giving  
    William Bradford (1870). “A Dialogue, or third conference between some young men born in New England, and some ancient men which cam out of Holland and Old England, concerning the Church and the government thereof ... Edited, with a preface and notes, by Charles Deane. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society”, p.6
  • Some of the greater things are unseen. That's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.

    Dream   Eye   Kissing  
  • There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.

  • 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.

    Moon   Men   Earth  
  • While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

    Life   Flower   Heart  
    Charles Dickens (1996). “Little Dorrit”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions
  • Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

    Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House
  • I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

    Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.
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