Than Quotes

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.