Than Quotes

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.