Greater Things Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Education, Sports

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Relationship

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

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• Our children don't have to have drinking problems. They don't have to go through divorce or live defeated lives. You can be the one to stir them up, shake them up, and tell them there is a champion inside of them just waiting to come out. Tell them God has a plan for their lives, and they are destined to do greater things than we ever thought of doing.... You can decide to be the role model and reverse your whole generational pattern from a bad one to a good one.

  Tim Storey

  Children, Drinking, Divorce

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• Dare to conceive of greater things for yourself. Dare to see yourself as strong, confident, successful, and possessed of the patience and stability to keep on moving in the direction of your dreams.
  
  "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream you shall become.
  Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be.
  Your idea is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

  Eric Butterworth

  Dream, Strong, Moving

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

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Friends, Two, Friend Valentine

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• I want eternity. I was born for greater things.

  Stanislaus Kostka

  Faith, Inspiration, Want

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• It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

  Albert Einstein

  Jesus, Can Do, Written

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.337, Princeton University Press

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• Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

  Tacitus

  Belief, Absence, Absent Mindedness

  "Historiae (Histories)". Book by Tacitus, circa 104-109 AD.

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• In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live in harmony with the Infinite. The highest teachings of the Christ reveal most clearly the principle that no soul was created to be a mere helpless instrument in the hands of Supreme Power, but that every soul should act and live in perfect oneness with that Power. And the promise is that we all are not only to do the things that Christ did, but even greater things.

  Christian D. Larson

  Teaching, Hands, Oneness

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.339, Penguin

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• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  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

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• Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

  Horace Bushnell

  Loss, Opportunity, Knowing

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.15

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• 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

  Inspire, Why Not, Impossible

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.397, Penguin

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• What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fighting, Winning, Want

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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.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Thinking, People

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• When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

  Lori Lansens

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Hilarie Burton

  Character, Kids, Tree

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• 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.

  Soseki Natsume

  Believe, Moving, Passion

  Natsume Soseki (2012). “Kokoro”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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