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It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
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No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- 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
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
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
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 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
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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.
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Better late than never.
- Proverb
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
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
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
It is better to do one's own duty,
however defective it may be,
than to follow the duty of another,
however well one may perform it.
He who does his duty as
his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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