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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin
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Better late than never.
- Proverb
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tonight, late, when I'm still not done with the day
but must comply with sleep,
I can whisper, "There was done a little good today.
Today I changed myself and the world, just a little.
And yes, I loved." Most days, that is enough.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is too late to be studying Hebrew;
it is more important to understand
even the slang of to-day.
- Henry David Thoreau
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
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
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
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
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
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
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
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
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 a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
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 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
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.
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
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
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
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
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
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
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 don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
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
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