Than Quotes

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.