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Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you’re doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can’t stand to have friends that have different views than you, than you need to reevaluate, my friend.
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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.
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.
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
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.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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.
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.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
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.
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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.
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.
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.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
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.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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!
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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.
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
I have an impact and people look up to me now. It’s more than the money.
I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’
There is more power in unity than division.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man‘s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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.’
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
I’d rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous – to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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.
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.
I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
I’d rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be 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.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
Sometimes it’s more about the journey than the destination.
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Do what you say you’re going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Rather be dead than cool.
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven‘t done.
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.’
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
I don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
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.
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.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
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.
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.
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.
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.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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.
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
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.
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Good words cool more than cold water.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Smile from your heart; nothing is more beautiful than a woman who is happy to be herself.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
We all make mistakes. God knows I’ve made more than anyone else I know.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
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 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.
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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.
Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Cleanliness is important, and more than that is the physical fitness to attain healthy body and mind.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
