Than Quotes

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Better never than late.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.