Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory.
Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that?
Offer discretion and discernment for our past
with a broad spectrum of forgiveness.
As for our present moment, delight.
And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of the society but the people themselves;
and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
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
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
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
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 man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
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
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
Better late than never.
- Proverb
I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days government had better
get out of their way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
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
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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