Less Quotes

“Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
"Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world”
― Munia Khan

“The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won’t die any quicker, but you’ll be less than the dirt on our boots. You’ll still be dust, but you’ll have wasted your short time in the light.”
― Conn Iggulden, Conqueror

“The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.”
― Anthony Liccione

“When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“You don’t know anything, but I know even less.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Better to pay more for superior work and be delighted, than less for inferior effort and be disappointed.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Some people offer you less than what you are worth, but it does not mean you have to accept it.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“In a relationship, the word 'sorry' is worth more than gold. However, the more it's mentioned the lesser your love and affection becomes.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“We should have known much more than our ancestors.
But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Most people think they need MORE to succeed; more money, more power, more time, more friends, more fame, more ideas, more prayers, more knowledge. They have never considered that less is actually sufficient.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“The more we know the less we understand”
― Dido Stargaze

“I want to feel more, but every time I look at it, I feel less.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“They went on in this way for nine years. And then, one autumn day, it ended. Freddy had changed, of course, from a twenty-five-year-old to a man in his midthirties: a high school teacher in blue short-sleeved button-ups and black ties, whom Less jokingly called Mr. Pelu (often raising his hand as if to be called on in class). Mr. Pelu had kept his curls, but his glasses were now red plastic. He could no longer fit his slim clothes; he had filled out from that skinny youngster into a grown man, with shoulders and a chest and a softness just beginning on in his belly. He no longer stumbled drunk up Less's stairs and recited bad poetry every weekend.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“When I look at the world I see only people trying to do good and failing often”
― Jimmy Love Hazard

“Less can be more. Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction. Athletes require rest and recovery time.”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“I don’t intend to be any less than what I can be, nor any more than who I should be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Less of something is often the ‘more’ that we need to make it work.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The best version of you is likely the very one that you’re demanding you’re not. And if you want to be something that is less than what you already are, keep on demanding.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I wasn’t a hypocrite — well, everyone is a hypocrite, but I was trying hard to be less of one.”
― Penny Reid, Friends Without Benefits

“The energy output of the Desoto Solar Farm was far less than what it should have been.”
― Steven Magee

“Give people the same importance they give you.
Never more, never less.”
― Augusto Branco

“During an abduction, you may have less than a minute to raise the alarm before you are never seen again!”
― Steven Magee

“Less ice cream and more veggies!”
― Steven Magee

“Allah does not talk. He does things! Such is the power of actions! Talk less and do more!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“It’s fine to be jealous.” I shrugged. “Just so long as you don’t think any less of yourself.”
― Colette Rhodes, Gilded Mess

“To be less than you are is so easy: even a child needs no lessons in this.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Simplicity is the ability to be satisfied with less even when there is more available.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions