All Quotes

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
‐‐ Martha Washington

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
‐‐ Ezra Stiles

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
‐‐ Robert Hughes

The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
‐‐ Bjornstjerne Bjornson

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
‐‐ Ferdinand Christian Baur

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
‐‐ Judith Martin

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
‐‐ Alfred Adler

The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
‐‐ Moliere

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
‐‐ Julian Assange

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
‐‐ John Hannah

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

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
‐‐ James Allen

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
‐‐ Ann Romney

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
‐‐ Carl Jung

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
‐‐ Frederick the Great

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
‐‐ Henry IV of England

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
‐‐ Michelangelo

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'
‐‐ George Foreman

The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.
‐‐ John Lasseter

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.
‐‐ Simon Travaglia

The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
‐‐ Zola Jesus

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'
‐‐ Dick Cavett

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
‐‐ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
‐‐ Michael Gerber

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
‐‐ Dorothy Day

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.
‐‐ Jay Samit

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels; I don't care who it was.
‐‐ Hal Roach

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
‐‐ Pete Rose

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
‐‐ Iris Johansen

The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an artist, when you're in there by yourself, trying to do something great, and people who don't even know you can come up and just dump on you.
‐‐ John McEnroe

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
‐‐ Geoffrey Beene