Top 625 Than Quotes

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

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

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

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

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

When we talk about ‘smart transportation,’ it is more than moving cargo from A to B. Digitization within transport and logistics means seamless service to our customers, visibility in the supply chain, and driving a more efficient business.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.

Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

There is more power in unity than division.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don’t get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.