Greater Quotes - Page 12

• It is so difficult to do any work nonviolently if you don't have the constant awareness of someone who is greater than you are - someone greater who will not just fight for you but who is there to console you.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Fighting, Awareness, Difficult

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• I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Respect, Believe

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

  Vera Farmiga

  Fighting, Names, Rude

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• Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Character, Black, Principles

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• It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

  Pierre de Fermat

  Two, Numbers, Impossible

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• Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

  B. C. Forbes

  Motivational, Adversity, Challenges

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• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Creativity, Creative

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Gide and George"

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• I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Humility, Practice

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

  Michael J. Fox

  Giving Up, Taken, Optimistic

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• Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Humble, Elements

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Wise, Equality, Men

  Dennis v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1950)

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• Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, People, Favors

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• A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Failure

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, Average, Mad

  "Analysis Terminable and Interminable". Book by Sigmund Freud, sect. 5, 1937.

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• There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

  Stephen Fry

  Doubt, Mood, Extremes

  "Stephen Fry: my long battle with manic depression" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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• To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Sacrifice, Humanity, Heroism

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• There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

  Henry George

  Change, Growth, Blind

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Confidence, Men

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• l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Suffering, Atheism

  "The Drawings of Van Gogh".

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• But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

  Daniel Goleman

  Years, Notable, Increase

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• If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

  Al Gore

  Sky, Oil, Discovery

  "What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?". Interview With John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Life, Doors

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Honesty, Business

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• Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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