Than Quotes

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

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.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.