Than Quotes

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.