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Welcome to these Windows Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
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When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape,
joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked.
- Anais Nin
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
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
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
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
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
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
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
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
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
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
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your 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
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
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
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
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 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
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
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
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
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
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
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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