Quotes About Better

I mean—are some men just flawed by nature? Or do we enable their bad behavior, make it worse in a way because we hide it, and don't demand better from them?

I guess the important thing is also the simplest. To acknowledge our connectedness on this earth, to bow our heads when we see a scorched bicycle or a child's message to his lost grandpa and to honor the past by making silent promises to our fellow humans that we will work for a better and more peaceful future.

I'd have been a fool not to have thought of it, and a greater fool not to have thought better of it.

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

He must have been insane, he thought, not to be overcome in spirit. But he was not. He felt loss of something, some kind of sensation he ought to have had. But he rode that race keener and better than any race he had ever before ridden.

though the antique Luxembourg Gardens suit me better.

husband in your love for your children. A very natural and forgivable mistake, Meg, but one that had better be remedied before you take to different ways

No, I am not," Grant shot back, "but in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out, and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

Had there been management consultants in those days, they couldn't have devised a better or wiser compromise.

MIRACLE OF LIFE   The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve, to foster, not only for today's world but for a better one to come. There is no purpose more noble than for us to sustain and celebrate life in a turbulent world, and that is what we must do now. The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom, 2005

he hated the constant danger of Indian attack; but being here was better than being in jail back in New Orleans for robbery and assault.

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would

Crisis shines a very bright light on human behavior, leaves no shadows in which we can hide, and reveals, simultaneously, the worst of which we are capable and our better natures

The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith , which is surely the devil's masterpiece.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Stress is a message. It is a personal invitation to make a change for the better.

Success for me isn't a destination it's a journey. Everybody's working to get to the top but where is the top? It's all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up.

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.