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

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
John F. Kennedy

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

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington

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

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso