Greater Quotes

• The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

  Adam Smith

  Division Of Labor, Skills, Dexterity

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.2

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• Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Light, Perfection, Excellence

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.125

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• Let's be about leaving this world better than we find it each and every day. Our life is a testimony and through us divine loving is becoming more manifest. Greater good is calling upon us here in this world to be done this day. One of my rallying calls is let's go out and do some good. This is who we are. This is what we are about.

  John Morton

  Leaving, Calling, Done

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• The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Kind, Natural, Increase

  United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.76

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• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Honor, Shadow

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• Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

  Eric Hoffer

  Frustration, Confusion, Want

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.337, Running Press

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• Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

  Queen Latifah

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "'Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom,' by Queen Latifah". abcnews.go.com. May 05, 2010.

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• I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!

  Reinhard Bonnke

  God, Christian, Moving

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• He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

  Mencius

  Leadership, Men, Self

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• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Bullying, Conceited

  Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press

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• The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

  Christian D. Larson

  Grateful, Mind, Produce

  Christian D. Larson (2016). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.166, Christian D. Larson

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• God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, God, Math

  "Quest: An Autobiography". Book by Leopold Infeld (p. 279), 1980.

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• He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wish, Demand, Examination

  "The Dispossesed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1978.

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• Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

  William Hague

  Country, Hands, People

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• I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Native American, White, Knowing

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• The more people you run into, the greater your exposure, the easier it is to understand and empathize with other people. So if you are living in a much smaller ecosystem, it's probably easier to have simpler feelings.

  James Scott

  Running, Ecosystems, People

  "James Scott’s Violent Landscape". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2014.

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• Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm caused by external causes out of the individual's control and that caused by oneself. Lifestyle risk discourse overturns the notion that health hazards in postindustrial society are out of the individual's control. On the contrary, the dominant theme of lifestyle risk discourse is the responsibility of the individual to avoid health risks for the sake of his or her own health as well as the greater good of society.

  Deborah Lupton

  Responsibility, Health Education, Risk

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• One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

  Zig Ziglar

  Dream, Commitment, Persistence

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

  Henri Matisse

  Simplicity, Essentials, Form

  Henri Matisse (2011). “Matisse: Drawing Life”, Queensland Art Gallery

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• There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.

  Sophia Loren

  Coffee, Men, Trying

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• The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

  Michael Josephson

  Keys, Goal, Effort

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• Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.

  Richard Sibbes

  Children, Giving, Favors

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