Rather Quotes

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward.

I'd rather be hit by a gorgeous man than an ugly one.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.

Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech.

Death rather than disgrace.