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It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
Colin Powell

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk

Everything, Ourselves, Maybe

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.
Katy Perry

Life, Future, Nothing

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish

Nature, Rude, Cruel

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
Stephen Hawking

Good, Women, Men

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Dwight L. Moody

God, Forget, Stand

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal

Life, Truth, Nothing

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
George Herbert

Work, Time, May

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Clara Barton

Faith, Past, Done

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France

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

Heart, Hard, Words

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
Robert H. Schuller

Nothing, Perfectly

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
Louis C. K.

Work, Time, Experience

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens

Done, Far, Rest

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens

Heart, Human, Strings

I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
Rita Rudner

Love, Great, Bad

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
Soichiro Honda

Remember, Understand, Find

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Claude Pepper

Thinking, Country, Election

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
LeBron James

Live, End, Decisions

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Write, Themselves, Desire

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Himself, Poet, Believed

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reality, Often, Virtues

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

Life, Death, Boring

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke

Happy, Mind, Two

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
Phyllis Diller

Become, Wanted, Knew

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson

Travel, May, Him

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

Money, Government, Country

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.
Sandra Bullock

Heart, Person, Whether

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
William Wordsworth

Business, Tired, Long

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