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It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
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We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
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No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
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
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.
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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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 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
Better late than never.
- Proverb
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
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
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
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
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
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
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
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
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
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- 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
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
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