Than Quotes

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

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.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Mine is better than ours.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.