Than Quotes by Khalil Gibran, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stephen King, Cush Jumbo, Vincent Van Gogh and many others.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous – to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
Cleanliness is important, and more than that is the physical fitness to attain healthy body and mind.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.
Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation‘ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you’re doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
There’s many a man has more hair than wit.
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
I don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.
Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
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.
I’d rather be lucky than good.
I have an impact and people look up to me now. It’s more than the money.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.
So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
As a street hustler, you’ve got to be smarter than everybody. You have to outsmart the police, you have to outsmart the people in competition with you, you have to outsmart all the opposition.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Something is better than nothing. Doin’ anything for a man, there’s investments involved, there’s time and production. It’s better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
Better a broken promise than none at all.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Say what you will, ‘tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don’t hear much about us, but there’s a lot more of us out there.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
I don’t tell people, ‘You’re okay the way that you are.’ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‘You’re way less than you could be.’
If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can’t stand to have friends that have different views than you, than you need to reevaluate, my friend.
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it’s bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven‘t done.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
It is better to look good than to feel good.
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
