Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Do what you say you’re going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
On a motorcycle, you can’t really think about more than where you are. There’s a freedom that comes with that – from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.
I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
I live a very dull life here… indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
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.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
It’s better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
We’re entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
I’m thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the ’60s.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Smile from your heart; nothing is more beautiful than a woman who is happy to be herself.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I’m much more confident with crypto than with banks or fiat currency because I can actually control it, and the money supply is transparent, stated up front. It makes online shopping a lot easier and a lot safer.
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I’m a strong person and a strong individual. And that’s what I take with me every day.
