I Quotes
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“It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.”
“It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.”
Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate
“It is better to accept the truth than a temporary lie.”
“it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”
“It is better to act right than seek right.”
“it is better to act that to wish that we had. It is better to suck than to not to suck at all”
Source: It's Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters
“It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.”
“It is better to admit your failure than to live in self deception.”
“It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.”
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.”
“It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.”
“It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.”
“It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“It is better to always be firm like grasses lying under the ground if they break you in one place or cut you off from one place you can rise from another place.
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“It is better to always be firm like grasses lying under the ground if they break you in one place or cut you off you can rise from another place.”
“It is better to anticipate than to react.”
“It Is Better to Apply Your Common Sense And Get to The Uncommon Place Than to Live Among the Common Men!”
Source: Risk It, Be Different
“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
Source: The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle
“It is better to arouse envy than pity.”
“It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.”
“It is better to avoid the temptation than get entangled in the sin.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is better to be
An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.”
“It is better to be 'sexy' than 'not sexy'”
“It is better to be a discipline than a follower.”
“It is better to be a fool than to be dead.”
“It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”
“It is better to be a free flowing material than get attached to any other hard surface.”
“It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.”
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides. (from Utilitarianism)”
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“It is better to be a king in the jungle and be celebrated than to be an unknown champion where you’d not be afforded the kind of respect you deserve.”
“It is better to be a lender than a spender.”
“It is better to be a lion for one day than a wolf for a lifetime.”
“It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.”
Source: Talks to Christians
“It is better to be a Number Two in a working system, than be a Number One yet lack capacity to make the system work.”
“it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty”
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
“It is better to be a reader than richer.”
“It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“It is better to be a slave to righteousness than a slave to sin.”
“It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.”
“It is better to be a star for one day than a moon for a lifetime.”
“It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.”
“It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.”
Source: The Prince
“It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.”
“It is better to be 'afraid'... than waste your time on small enemies.”
Source: Krikos: The Vertical Horizon
“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
“It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.”