Greater Things Quotes

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

  Steve Jobs

  Teamwork, Business, People

  "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. 2003.

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

  Steve Jobs

  Teamwork, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some of the greater things are unseen. That's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.

  Kathy Baker

  Dream, Eye, Kissing

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• We don't have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them to leave us once they're gone. You can use those moments as a catalyst to spur you on to greater things or you can let it be the event that breaks you and leaves you shattered and forever lost in darkness.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bad Day, Choices, Forever

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• God is preparing you for greater things. He's going to take you further than you thought possible, so don't be surprised when He asks you to think better of yourself and to act accordingly.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Preparing, Asks

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all capable of
  greater things than we realize.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Power Of Positive Thinking, Realizing, Capable

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• I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Thinking, Accomplish

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

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Greatness

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• How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Failure, Men, Understanding

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.36, Penguin

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• Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Spiritual, Greatness, Men

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.174, e-artnow

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• Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

  Hugh Walpole

  Men, Capability, Capable

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  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”

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• Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible. God being perfect becomes perfect man, and brings to perfection the newest of all new things (cf. Eccles 1:10), the only new thing under the sun, through which the boundless might of God is manifested. For what greater thing is there than that God should become man?

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Men, Cfs

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• No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

  Epictetus

  Life, Patience, Time

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Happiness, Hurt

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

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• 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.

  Richard Branson

  Powerful, Passion, World

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• While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Littles, Little Things, Busy

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• Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

  Horace Walpole

  Future, Greatness, Men

  Horace Walpole, George Vertue (1798). “The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...”, p.371

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• 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

  Hard Work, Order, Numbers

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.29, New World Library

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Flower, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1996). “Little Dorrit”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Prayer, Believe, Understanding

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• 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!'

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Hands, Religion

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

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• "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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  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

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