Rather Quotes

“It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.”

“Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?”

“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.”

“In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.”

“In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.”

“The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.”

“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.”

“Who would not rather trust and be deceived?”

“I'd rather be lucky than good.”