Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Better

Never make your appeal to a man’s better nature; he may not have one. Always make your appeal to his self-interest.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer

So, instead of wanting to throttle your loved ones when they give you a hard time, it is better to look at them as mirrors of what you still need to work on in terms of our personal growth.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

The Work reveals that what you think shouldn’t have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn’t mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don’t know how to stop.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than “you” ever could by conscious thought. “You” supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.
Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eye, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun

Too many of those with unrealized aspirations have set them aside due to fear of failure. The bigger the dream, the greater the fear. Doing less than our best allays this fear. I could have done better if I’d tried, we assure ourselves. Among the least appreciated reasons for doing superficial, second-rate work of any kind is the comfort of knowing it’s not our best that’s on the line. By not trying too hard, we avoid learning what our true potential is, and having to fulfill it. Doing our best can be deeply threatening. It forces us to consider what we’re actually capable of accomplishing. Once we learn that lesson, we can’t unlearn it. Our true potential becomes both a shining light we can follow and an oppressive burden of expectation that might, or might not, be met.
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The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read.
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Four be the things I’d been better without: Love, curiosity, Freckles and doubt.
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American Humorist, Journalist

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action.
Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907–82) American Psychologist, Academic

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

True nobility isn’t about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be.
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Tim Ferriss (b.1977) American Self-help Author

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) English Biologist

It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney Young (1921–71) American Civil Rights Leader

A heart free from care is better than a full purse.
Arabic Proverb

‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet

He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) British Head of State, Military Leader

It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author—and not to learn it better.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair… The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It’s internal rather than external. People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
Martin Seligman (b.1942) American Psychologist, Author

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

They do not celebrate getting older; what they do celebrate is becoming better.
Marlo Morgan (1937–98) American Novelist, Author

To live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson (b.1959) English Novelist, Journalist

Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
Danish Proverb

It’s better to give than to receive. Let me put this as elegantly as possible: “What a crock!” That statement is total hogwash, and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s usually propagated by people and groups who want you to give and them to receive. The whole idea is ludicrous. What’s better, hot or cold, big or small, left or right, in or out? Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin. Whoever decided that it is better to give than to receive was simply bad at math. For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God’s. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, “You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself,” I am in your business. When I’m worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God’s business. If I am mentally in your business or in God’s business, the effect is separation.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

An empty house is better than a bad tenant.
Irish Proverb

If we are to find our way across toubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American Author, Editor, Orator

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