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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

Love, Success, Failure

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad Ali

Dream, Apologize, Wake

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

Change, Friend, Changes

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve Jobs

Great, Heart, Find

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda

Wise, Smart, Remember

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy

Attitude, Forward, Gratitude

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant

Trust, Sunshine, Friend

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Beautiful, Ugly

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

Regret, Leave, Behind

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln

Religion, Care, Dog

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

Ability, Potential, Build

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Good, Men, Alone

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

Change, Drawbacks

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson

After, Sometimes, Might

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Fool, Foolish, Witty

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin

Peace, War, Find

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

Judge, Tending, Whither

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson

Dreams, History, Future

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

Good, Money, Help

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain

Deserve, Honors

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Work, Joy

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

Good, Thoughts, Large

Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain

Broken, Promise, None

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn

Leadership, Good, Help

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lost, Loved, Tis

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

Diamond, Flaw, Pebble

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain

Lie, Around, Belong

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Educated, Newspapers

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