“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
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“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
George Eliot book Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch
“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”
Nick Hornby book The Polysyllabic Spree
Source: The Polysyllabic Spree
“Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.”
Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth
Source: The Wretched of the Earth
“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
“Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.”
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
"Herbert West: Re-Animator" in "Home Brew" Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1922)
Fiction
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession
Crofts, Act III
Variant: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”
Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant
Source: The Magician's Elephant
“Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?”
Jeffrey Archer book A Prisoner of Birth
Source: A Prisoner of Birth
“There's a difference between the wordsand. And it's more than three words.”
Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More
Source: The Moon and More
“self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
“I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki book Rich Dad Poor Dad
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism