Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau
May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
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
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
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
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
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
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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.
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
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is better to have your head in the clouds,
and know where you are...
than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them,
and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
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