Than Quotes

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Well done is better than well said.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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.