Than Quotes

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

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.