There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.
Maurice Strong

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Alain de Botton

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
Elizabeth II

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Mencius

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Mencius

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul Kalam

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Emile Zola

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Pat Riley

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel de Cervantes

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Thomas Huxley

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay