Than Quotes

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.