I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
There’s beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that’s harder than others.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I’d rather be the person that’s like, ‘I messed up,’ than, ‘I wish I did that.’
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.
This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth.
I’ll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
As a street hustler, you’ve got to be smarter than everybody. You have to outsmart the police, you have to outsmart the people in competition with you, you have to outsmart all the opposition.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
At the end of the day it’s better to be an unpleasant winner than a nice loser.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
We all make mistakes. God knows I’ve made more than anyone else I know.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
