Than Quotes

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

We are wiser than we know.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.