Than Quotes

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.