Than Quotes

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

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.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

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