I Quotes
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“It is better to dance in the rain than to freeze in the storm.”
“It is better to dare than fear.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
“It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.”
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving”
Source: Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage
“It is better to desire pure than mere pleasure.”
“It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.”
“It is better to develop ideas with friends rather than the usual route of having a great idea and throwing it out into a production, and being surrounded by professionals who've been doing their jobs for years.”
“It is better to die courageously than live as a coward.”
“It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees.”
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”
“It is better to die for your virtues than to live for your vices.”
“It is better to die forgotten defending peace than be remembered eternally for inciting war.”
“It is better to die in hope than live in despair.”
“It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance”
Source: The Teaching of Epictetus: Being the Encheiridion of Epictetus with Selections from the Dissertations and Fragments
“It is better to die on the battlefield, than to win by tossing a coin.”
“It is better to die, than dive heart-first, into a pool of love, only knee-high deep.”
“It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.”
“It is better to die than to tell a lie”
“It is better to die while living, than to live while dying.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“It is better to die with your boots on than to live as a bootlicker.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.”
“It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.”
Source: Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World
“It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.”
“It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.”
“It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.”
“It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.”
“It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.”
“It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“It is better to do the will of God than seek your own ways.”
“It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.”
“It is better to do what is right in the eyes of God than your own.”
“It is better to do what you can, than to try to do what you can’t.”
Source: A Rare and Dangerous Beast
“It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.”
“It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.”
Source: Killosophy
“It is better to dream big and get half of it, then dream small and get all of it.”
“It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.”
“It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is better to elevate yourself through the power of your mind than to lower yourself because the mind can be both a friend and an enemy to the self.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“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.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.”
Source: What is Property?
“It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.”
“It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.”
“It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.”
Source: future shock
“It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.”
Source: The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks
“It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.”
“It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.”