Than Quotes
- Page 8Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Napoleon Hill
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
Janis Joplin
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
Julius Erving
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll