Than Quotes

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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.

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.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

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.