I Quotes
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“It is better to fail forward by taking responsibility, than to fail backward and blame others. Mas madaling tumayo mula sa posisyon ng pagkakadapa, kaysa mula sa pagkakahiga”
Source: Anong Nangyari Sa Akin?
“It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.”
Source: Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition
“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.”
“It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.”
“It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.”
“It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.”
“It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.”
“It is better to find your courage to make changes when you can choose to rather than being forced to. If you do not make change, change will make you.”
“It is better to find yourself than to find a thousand pots of gold.”
“It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.”
“It is better to forget about yourself altogether.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.”
“It is better to get stuck in life than to get stuck in a devilish relationship, the Coronavirus”
“It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“It is better to give a lick than receive one.”
Source: Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer
“It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.”
“It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.”
“It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all.”
“It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading emotion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain”
“It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain.”
“It is better to give #nothing to someone than to give him more or less than he #deserves. - - Petar Nikolov 1603.911.bg”
“It is better to give than receive- especially advice.”
“It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.”
“It is better to give than to receive" can be applied to MANY circumstances; relationships are not one of them. Two people should contribute to a union. When one is weak, the other is strong. It's about finding the right balance. If what you're giving outweighs what you receive, maybe the person you're with is just not the right fit for you.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.”
Source: Light from Heaven
“It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.”
Source: My Study Fire
“It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.”
Source: Kull: Exile of Atlantis
“It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.”
“It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.”
“It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.”
“It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.”
Source: The Seeker: A Novel
“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.”
“It is better to have a bad method than to have none.”
“It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.”
“It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.”
“It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.”
“It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.”
“It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.”
“It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.”
“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.”
Source: Novels and miscellaneous works: With prefaces and notes, including those attributed to Sir Walter Scott
“It is better to have a little than nothing.”
“It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.”
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
Source: Aphorisms
“It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.”
Source: Moses the Law-giver
“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”
Source: Love
“It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.”
“It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.”
“It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks