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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale

Great, Fear, Successful

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

Nothing, Educated, Newspapers

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

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

Lost, Loved, Tis

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain

Old, Diamonds, None

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

History, Past, Write

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
Zig Ziglar

America, Step, Building

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

Change, Wish, Child

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett

Direction, Behavior, Whose

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill

After, Place, Taken

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Words, Prayer

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Wrong, Ideas

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston Churchill

Less, Church, Army

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare

Love, Good, Sought

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama

Leadership, Failure, Today

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Light, Darkness, Candle

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Single, Give

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Try, Again, Matter

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee

Thought, Wrong, Against

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Book, Down

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau

May, Before, Sick

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Education, Sense, Times

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury

Education, Money, End

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, Advantage, Pleased

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Broken, Able, Stand

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Beauty, Sympathy

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

Work, Today, Children

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