Less Quotes

The higher your station, the less your liberty. (Sallust)
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. View quote
Jane Austen
Men trust their eyes less than their ears. View quote
Herodotus
Have more than you show, Speak less than you know. View quote
William Shakespeare
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? View quote
George Eliot
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. View quote
Indira Gandhi
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. View quote
Sophocles
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. View quote
Virgil
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. (Plato)
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. View quote
Václav Havel
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. View quote
Marie Curie
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. View quote
Richard Bach
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more. View quote
Jules Renard
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. View quote
John Donne
Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in. (Aristotle Onassis)
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. View quote
Norman Mailer
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. View quote
Rebecca West
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. View quote
James Baldwin
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