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It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Related topics: Wisdom
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- 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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- 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
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
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
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
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 far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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
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
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 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 bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
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.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
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
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
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
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
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
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 to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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