Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart 
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Amelia Earhart
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
There are two kinds of stones,
as everyone knows,
one of which rolls.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
I want to do it because I want to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do,
and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home,
and love, and understanding companionship.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must pay for everything.
They do get more glory than men for comparable feats,
but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
- Amelia Earhart
The woman who can create her own job
is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
- Amelia Earhart
Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning
when first I considered going.
Once faced and settled there really wasn't
any good reason to refer to it.
- Amelia Earhart
Flying might not be all plain sailing,
but the fun of it is worth the price.
- Amelia Earhart
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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