To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
I have an impact and people look up to me now. It’s more than the money.
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.
Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
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.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Fashion is part of our culture, and it’s about more than just a pretty dress.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.
You may say, ‘Well, dragons don’t exist.’ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‘predator’ and the category ‘dragon’ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Work harder than anybody you’ve ever seen. That’s what I believe.
They say a midget standing on a giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
