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

  Hugh Walpole

  Men, Capability, Capable

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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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• 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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• Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

  William Bradford

  Light, Hands, Giving

  William Bradford (1870). “A Dialogue, or third conference between some young men born in New England, and some ancient men which cam out of Holland and Old England, concerning the Church and the government thereof ... Edited, with a preface and notes, by Charles Deane. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society”, p.6

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

  Stanislaus Kostka

  Faith, Inspiration, Want

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?

  Ysabella Brave

  Mean, People, Problem

  "Ysabella Brave"/"We Are a Powder Drink", August 20, 2008.

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• The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Running, Home, Opportunity

  Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Citizens, Republican, Democrat

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