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
In the final choice, a soldier's pack
is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
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
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 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
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
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
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
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 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's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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 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
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
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
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is any day better to stand erect
with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly,
in order to be able to save one's head.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
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
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
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
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
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
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
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- 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
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
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
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