False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you're not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you're satisfied and make you happy, you're not getting stronger. You're staying where you're at. Either you're getting better, or you're getting worse. You're not staying the same.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.