Than Quotes

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.