The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you’re doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women’s economic freedom.
It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
I’d always rather be lucky than smart.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Thankfully, I have other skills than just standing there and looking cute.
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don’t hear much about us, but there’s a lot more of us out there.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
You don’t have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
I don’t tell people, ‘You’re okay the way that you are.’ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‘You’re way less than you could be.’
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Error is always more busy than truth.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
We loved with a love that was more than love.
People see me as cute, but I’m so much more than that.
