Than Quotes

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

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

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.