Than Quotes

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

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.