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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Mencius
Delight
Sincerity
Self-Examination
Greater
Than
Conscious
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Mencius
Great
Man
Great Man
Small
Self
He
Smaller
Greater
Becomes
His
Who
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
Michael J. Fox
Value
Everything
Possibilities
Has-Been
See
Something
Given
Taken
Greater
Been
Away
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato
Good
Nature
Man
Will
Evil
Human Nature
Evils
No-One
He
Greater
Human
Prefer
Might
Choose
Less
Compelled
Two
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
R. D. Laing
Creative
People
Walks
Other
Someone
Mental
Risk
More
Along
Greater
Territories
Climbs
Mountain
Than
Just
Explore
Lane
Help
Who
Creative People
Village
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes
Great
Confidence
Doubt
Consolation
Perfect
Talented
Greater
Prize
Artist
Granted
Less
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
Love
Me
Love Is
Will
Believe
Corners
Our
Hidden
More
Small
Daughters
Fail
Sin
Occasions
Although
Greater
Commit
May
Often
Gain
Midst
Found
Away
Here
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Sitting Bull
You
Fool
Think
Greater
Am
Than
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Steve Jobs
Business
Beatles
Negative
Other
Others
Sum
Total
Guys
Tendencies
Check
Balanced
Greater
Parts
Were
Than
Model
Each
Four
Kept
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
World
Power
Older
Further
Seem
More
Like
Greater
Am
Get
Snowball
Gain
Help
I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
Sylvia Earle
Love
Music
Too
Kids
Laughing
Kinds
Greater
Sound
Than
Grandchildren
Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
Joyce Meyer
God
Time
Freedom
Change
Joy
Better
Giant
Give
Something
More
Take
He
Step
Step Forward
Blessings
Greater
Because
Always
Ask
Us
Means
Forward
Each
Cooperate
Each Time
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
White
Society
Crimes
Negroes
Born
Greater
Committed
Deplorable
Derivative
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
Abu Bakr
Fight
Evil
Jihad
Self
Greater
Against
Your
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
Inferiority
Human Being
Feeling
Own
Possess
Has-Been
Constantly
More
Emotional
Powerful
Towards
Greater
Been
Human
Being
Experienced
Which
Urge
Means
Agitation
Conquest
Violent
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson
Fear
Prisoner
Hell
Greater
Than
Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.
Bob Uecker
Try
Long
Big
Think
Hey
Easy
Stay
Guys
Leagues
Greater
Stick
Around
Accomplishment
Big Leagues
Hit
Did
Much
Hard
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
Bobby Seale
Future
World
Think
Progressive
Dream
About
Call
Greater
American
Legislation
American Dream
Should
Humanism
Necessary
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
Dorothea Dix
Good
Back
Spent
Those
Days
Look
Greater
Around
Bliss
Doing
Doing Good
Than
Us
Usefulness
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
Time
Me
You
Fruit
First
Tell
Must
Ripen
More
Bear
Greater
Answer
Bunch
Blossom
Than
Any
Then
Created
Fig
Grapes
Suddenly
Thing
Desire
We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.
Evan Bayh
Good
Focus
Think
Other
About
Something
Instead
Leaders
Greater
Greater Good
Self-Interest
Narrow
Than
Us
Who
Appeal
Need
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great
Wealth
Power
Ambition
Earn
Others
Recognize
Security
Ability
Some
Proper
More
Great Power
Individual
Obtain
Him
Greater
Continue
Than
Preferred
Assert
Appetite
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
George Matthew Adams
Character
Man
Soul
Genius
Money
Unhappy
Nothing
Remain
Talent
Greater
Fame
Friends
Than
Die
May
Bankrupt
Useless
Comparatively
Compare
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George Washington
Will
First
Wish
Distinguished
Rigor
Some
Operate
Force
Greater
Conduct
Than
Therefore
The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.
Gordon Ramsay
Today
Time
You
Cooking
Personality
Strong
Pressure
Be Strong
Before
Young
Every
Every Time
Marketing
More
Physically
Kitchen
Weighed
Delivering
Come
Terms
Greater
Chefs
Importantly
Fit
Than
Get
Social
Far
Skills
Plate
Social Skills
Ever
Need
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
Knowledge
Man
Confusion
Will
More
He
Greater
His
Order
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