Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
Jesus Christ

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

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

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

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

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
John Locke

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles

There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Sophocles

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
Carroll Quigley

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo