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It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- 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
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
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I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
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
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
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
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
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
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
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
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
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
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
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
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
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.
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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