Than Quotes

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

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.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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.

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.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.