Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthur

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Precaution is better than cure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
George W. Bush

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
George W. Bush

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks

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

I've always liked men better than women.
Bette Davis

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

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
William Glasser

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
James A. Baldwin

There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James A. Baldwin