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It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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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
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
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 
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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
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
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
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
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
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
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
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
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
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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Better late than never.
- Proverb
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 have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
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
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
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.
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
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
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
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
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
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
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
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
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