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It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
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
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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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 always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
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
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
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
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
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
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
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
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
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.
The world is a better place because I am here.
- 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
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
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
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
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
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