Less Quotes - page 4

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. (Maureen Dowd)
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
Ernest Renan
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Gore Vidal
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. (Samuel Johnson)
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Samuel Johnson
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
Gertrude Stein
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve Jobs
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream...
Gustave Moreau
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
Livy
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
Joseph Addison
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. (Ernest Hemingway)
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
Frances Farmer
There is less in this than meets the eye.
Tallulah Bankhead
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James Baldwin
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
François de La Rochefoucauld