Top 150 Few Quotes

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

If in the last few years you haven‘t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That’s just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night.

Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Few and far between are the books you’ll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that’s all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don’t support you.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born – but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And that can be just a few minutes sitting on your porch feeling the breeze against your face. That can be a few moments spent in meditation or in prayer or remembering three things you’re grateful for.

I’ve had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon… it sounds romantic, but it’s true – the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine – a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone… and not just for a few.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn’t grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity – the more Lego bricks you have doesn’t mean you’re going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they’ve got into being their own boss.

Life doesn’t offer you promises whatsoever so it’s very easy to become, ‘Whatever happened to… ?’ It’s great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I was born in Germany and grew up immersed in international school communities. I was in the German bilingual track, spent a few years in rural Canada, and then went to the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Many admire, few know.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.

It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They’re just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It’s kind of untouched, it’s not Americanized.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

It’s funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

It’s not like I’m against alcohol. It’s just a decision I made, and if you’ve never had it, you don’t miss it. I’ve been drenched in champagne a few times over my career. I might have a drink if England win the World Cup. That’s one moment where I might.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what’s real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

I truly believe that one of the reasons why I look and feel so well is because I’ve very few inhibitions. I don’t care about age. Life is too short to worry about what other people think.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

I’ve been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

One can’t predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

I don’t have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn’t take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

Even the biggest flops have been liked by a few select people.

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

I’ve had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you’re carrying a grudge, they’re out dancing.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more – it’s really a very therapeutic thing to do for me. I just need to be home for more than a few minutes to be able to play more, I guess.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

I’m addicted to my iPhone and get a game for it every few days.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people’s lives through advocacy and through supporting research – that’s the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it’s certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

The last few years I’ve been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn’t that interesting to me. Now that I’m directing, it’s all new again.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.