To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to do one's own duty,
however defective it may be,
than to follow the duty of another,
however well one may perform it.
He who does his duty as
his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
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
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
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
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
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
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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
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
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Better late than never.
- Proverb
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- 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
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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