Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Epictetus

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh

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

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. Washington

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Bono

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

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck Palahniuk

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Andrew Carnegie

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Ron Paul

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Lyndon B. Johnson

"Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Saint Teresa of Avila

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley