We may never be strong enough to be entirely
nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal
and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface
the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
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 can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
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 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
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
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
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
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
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
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
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
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
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
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 learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
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