Stronger than pain quotes (page 400) | Quotes of famous people

“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

Gerhard Gschwandtner, Great Thoughts to Sell By: Quotes to Motivate You to Success, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007, ISBN 0071475990, p. 89.
Attributed

“It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“Some instinct older than civilization was telling her to run, to flee.
She didn't move.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.”

Arthur Ashe (1943–1993) American tennis player

“Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Principles of Social Reconstruction [Originally titled Why Men Fight : A Method Of Abolishing The International Duel], Ch. VIII : What We Can Do, p. 257
1910s
Context: It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. The State and Property are the great embodiments of possessiveness; it is for this reason that they are against life, and that they issue in war. Possession means taking or keeping some good thing which another is prevented from enjoying; creation means putting into the world a good thing which otherwise no one would be able to enjoy. Since the material goods of the world must be divided among the population, and since some men are by nature brigands, there must be defensive possession, which will be regulated, in a good community, by some principle of impersonal justice. But all this is only the preface to a good life or good political institutions, in which creation will altogether outweigh possession, and distributive justice will exist as an uninteresting matter of course.
The supreme principle, both in politics and in private life, should be to promote all that is creative, and so to diminish the impulses and desires that center round possession.

“Relationship Principle 11
It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

“Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)”

Ron Chernow book Alexander Hamilton

Source: Alexander Hamilton

“Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.”

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist

Source: Flotsam

“Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Doomed

Source: Doomed

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 49, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Ch. 3, p. 72) http://books.google.com/books?id=CoP1GxjoNnsC&q="The+history+of+men's+opposition+to+women's+emancipation+is+more+interesting+perhaps+than+the+story+of+that+emancipation+itself"&pg=PA72#v=onepage
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929)

“That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.”

Arthur Japin (1956) Dutch author

Source: In Lucia's Eyes

“The medicine of Sushruta is considerably older than the ninth century; and the grammar of Panini probably precedes Christianity.”

Pāṇini ancient Sanskrit grammarian

Horace Hayman Wilson in: The Vishńu Puráńa: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition https://books.google.co.in/books?id=rpVTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR38, J. Murray, 1840, p. 38.

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