Less Quotes

When you’re paid to do a job, it’s better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That’s one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

I don’t ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.