Than Quotes

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.