More Is Quotes

#1. Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Robert Herrick

#2. Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Beggars ask for more... riches ask for more... Turn your head.. people asks for more and more.. Time crawls but Asking for More is never-ending!!

DEB

#4. The theologian can ask far profounder questions because he knows more about God; by that same knowledge he knows that there are depths that he will never know. But to see why one cannot know more is itself a real seeing; there is a way of seeing the darkness which is a kind of light.

Frank Sheed

#5. He who knows more is more responsible.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

#6. If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. To say more is to say less.

Harlan Ellison

#8. Who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow,
than another day?
(-The Avett Brothers, "Swept Away")

Colleen Hoover

#9. Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#10. You need not search for uniqueness, you are unique already. There is no way to make a thing more unique. The words "more unique" are absurd. It is just like the word "circle." Circles exist; there is no such thing as "more circular." That is absurd. A circle is always perfect, "more" is not needed.

Osho

#11. I asked myself not why I was alive but why I had lived. Out of expectation, I supposed, and wondered whether I still expected anything. It seemed I did.

Something more is always expected.

Antonio Di Benedetto

#12. Self belief is directly proportional to confidence i.e more the self belief more is the confidence and less of it will lessen the confidence. Success gets attracted to persons with high self belief.

Sandeep Kakkar

#13. No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?

Tamora Pierce

#14. Line between the materialistic and spiritual view of money is that while the former is rooted in the belief that more is better, the latter is a reflection of conviction that less is more and nothing is everything.

Anonymous

#15. In November he'll go hunting with his friends, and that's enough to look forward to ... that, and maybe a big old sloppy-lipstick blowjob from this drunk chick out in his car. Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
Dreams are for kids.

Stephen King

#16. Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or it is arrogance. Life merely is what it is, neither more nor less. To deem it less because it is not more is to heed the counsels of the Despiser.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#17. [On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.

Mildred Cable

#18. More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

Heidi Baker

#19. Anyone who tells you that American seniors are not either going to have their services cut or we're going to have to pay more is ... lying about it.

Katty Kay

#20. Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer

Thomas Mann

#21. Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.

Andrea Dworkin

#22. Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.

Dolly Parton

#23. Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

Gary Bauer

#24. We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Maria Mitchell

#25. Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

Benjamin Hoff

#26. More is more and less is a bore.

Iris Apfel

#27. Where more is meant than meets the ear.

John Milton

#28. Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca The Younger

#29. More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

Alex Steffen

#30. Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

David Hemenway

#31. If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

Hosea Ballou

#32. What is is plenty, but more is never enough.

Marty Rubin

#33. Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.

Hal Elrod

#34. Fans mean everything to me. Writing for pleasure is extremely satisfying but having readers enjoy my work and want to read more is just wonderful and means so much to me. I love the interactivity and always look forward to hearing from, and writing for, fans!

Gwyneth Williams

#35. I like what hes created, I enjoy the life he has, but what interests me more is the mind behind it all and how willing he is, to chase everything that matters to him.

Nikki Rowe

#36. If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

Richard P. Feynman

#37. The more we give away, the more is given to us.

Wayne Dyer

#38. While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments ... the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.

Arthur Brisbane

#39. The only way to buy more is to produce more.

Peter Schiff

#40. More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.

Mira Sorvino

#41. The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

Nicola Griffith

#42. I miss you a lot. But what I miss even more is the person I become when I am with you. She is beautiful.

Sabine Shah

#43. Absence of defects does not necessarily build business ... Something more is required.

W. Edwards Deming

#44. I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.

Alex Bogusky

#45. The mind of the experienced book reader is a calm mind, not a buzzing one. When it comes to the firing of our neurons, it's a mistake to assume that more is better.

Nicholas Carr

#46. When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

Ernie J Zelinski

#47. You are meant to heal. There is beauty and wild magic in the night. Enough to make you ache with joy and grow strong. There is no lesson in that. There is just reward, waiting for you, that asks nothing and demands no payment. Look! the Dragon orders. Look and tell me what more is needed.

Alexia Casale

#48. Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Benjamin Cardozo

#49. If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?

Charles Spurgeon

#50. The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

James Patterson

#51. The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#52. All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I've ever asked, as I've gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.

Stevie Wonder

#53. I'm never scared, they never real, I never run. When all is said and done, more is always said than done.

Drake

#54. I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

Bill Maher

#55. Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

Jessica E. Larsen

#56. The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare - all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases. He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#57. Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Bill Vaughan

#58. 'We need to do more' is not very sophisticated thinking and not good sales management.

Jason Jordan

#59. Less is not more. More is more.

Dolly Parton

#60. Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.

Faith Ringgold

#61. in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that's a long-term concept.

Tom DeMarco

#62. As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

Gary Hamel

#63. Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

Robert Hunter

#64. More is missed by not looking than not knowing

Thomas McCrae Osler

#65. The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Leo Tolstoy

#66. For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

Baltasar Gracian

#67. God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve.

Helder Camara

#68. What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

J.M. Coetzee

#69. In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Jane Frances De Chantal

#70. The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

Travis Bradberry

#71. To do so no more is the truest repentance.

Martin Luther

#72. Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!

Bryan Kest

#73. although the mechanism isn't clear yet, strenuous exercise changes the categories of genes that prevent the development of chronic inflammation, which more and more, is believed to be the underlying cause of many chronic conditions.

Deborah Kesten

#74. I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.

Paul Stanley

#75. We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.

Michael Spence

#76. When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

Dolly Parton

#77. Are you sure we shouldn't have the cops or more guys or something?"
"Don't you worry, buttercup," Francis says. "Anything more is extra time and a herd of elephants.

Carolyn Crane

#78. To love Christ more, is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul
Out in the woods and on my bed and out driving,
when I am happy and busy,
and when I am sad and idle,
the whisper keeps going up for
more love, more love, more love!

Elizabeth Prentiss

#79. More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

William Blake

#80. More is not necessarily better. Better is better.

Julie Newmar

#81. Reading 'more' is always a good thing, but not the solution.

Franco Moretti

#82. Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Robert Herrick

#83. Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.

Newt Gingrich

#84. Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

Ted Cruz

#85. Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

Lord Chesterfield

#86. More is said in silences than words ever could.

Avijeet Das

#87. Coffee is a warm drink that fosters friendship and tastes great. What more is there to life?

Kevin Sinnott

#88. I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#89. This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in Philadelphia, to whom more is owed than can ever be repaid.

Michael Swanwick

#90. What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#91. If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead ... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

Ann Hood

#92. Man is in love and loves
what vanishes,
What more is there to say?

William Butler Yeats

#93. To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

Katy Butler

#94. You must learn to wait properly ... By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind you so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension

Eugen Herrigel

#95. Only I have left to say,
'More is thy due than more than all can pay'.

William Shakespeare

#96. [On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

Gloria Steinem

#97. Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Teresa Of Avila

#98. I've figured out that I don't want to spend all of my spare time trying to make money. But, with things like fame or internet presence - things you cannot cash in at the bank - there is still a sense that more is better and that your career should be following a certain trajectory.

Erika M. Anderson

#99. Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#100. I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

Stanley Elkin