People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,
than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
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
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- 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
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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
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
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
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
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
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
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