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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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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
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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 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
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Trust yourself. Only you can live your life.
Only you can taste your victories.
Only you can suffer the sting of your defeats.
Make your own choices, and accept your own consequences -
for better or worse.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -
for future generations.
Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
Literally planting trees for
your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,
but far more important...
use this symbolism - this imagery -
to represent the kind of legacy
you want to leave to future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
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
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
It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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