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Welcome to these Atmosphere Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
It is better to have your head in the clouds,
and know where you are...
than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them,
and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice,
I would have English Channels round every country.
And the atmosphere would be such that
anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
- Winston Churchill
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
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
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- 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
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
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
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
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
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
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
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
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.
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
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 learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
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
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- 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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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