Calculus of Self-Deception

“In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.”
--Carol Tavris

Minor Heroes

“Man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.”
--Victor Hugo

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Use What You Got

“We do not need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.”
--Basil S. Walsh

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More is Less

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
--Thomas Jefferson

Be Just

“Man’s greatness lies in his decision to be greater than his condition. And if his condition is unjust, he has only one way of overcoming it, which is to be just himself.”
--Albert Camus

Less Opinionated

“The greater the man, the less is he opinionated.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte

What to Seek

“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
--Mahatma Gandhi

Greater Power

“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world. I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled, the more I gain.”
--Susan B. Anthony

Much Greater Lengths

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
--Dan Brown

Before You Act

“Before you act for the greater good, you should know what is great and what is good."
--Jeffrey Fry

Make Yourself Useful

“You can render to humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.”
--Wallace Whattles

Do Nothing

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
--Edmund Burke

Happiness' Point of View

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
--Martha Washington

Patient With Yourself

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.”
--Stephen Covey

Seed of Benefit

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
--Napoleon Hill

 

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A Greater Compliment

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
--George MacDonald

Sea of Tranquility

“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.”
--James Allen

Friend Confidence

“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”
--Benjamin Franklin

Fear's Power

“Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
--Robert T. Kiyosaki

More Pain More Gain

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