I Quotes
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“It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.”
“It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."”
“It is better to search our sins than to find out the nature of things.”
“It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.”
Source: At the Summit: Speeches and Interviews, February 1987-July 1988
“It is better to see through one eye than to hear through two ears.”
“It is better to seek pure joy than mere pleasure.”
“It is better to seek purity than the pleasure of sin.”
“It is better to seek redemption than chase riches.”
“It is better to seek the glory of God than human beings.”
“It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.”
“It is better to serve than be served.”
“It is better to show ‘you care’ than say ‘I care’.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.”
“It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.”
Source: Sweet Thursday
“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.”
“It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.”
“It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.”
“It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!”
“It is better to stand and Fight. If you run, you will only Die Tired.”
“It is better to stand in the rain than to run to your enemy for shelter.”
“It is better to stand up straight for you than do a backflip for others.”
“It is better to start a new relationship without the ex on the scene.”
“It is better to start over than to continue down a path that you know is wrong for your Soul.”
“It is better to starve than get a bad client.”
“It is better to stay humble than to be humbled. Humility is importanter!”
“It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.”
“It is better to submit to authorityof the Sovereign LORD than to be stubborn.”
“It is better to submit to the authority of the Sovereign LORD than be stubborn.”
“It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one”
“It is better to suffer for knowledge than to pleasure in ignorance.”
“It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.”
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
Source: The Rambler
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“It is better to support schools than jails.”
Source: Mark Twain's Speeches
“It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.”
“It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.”
“it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.”
Source: Letters to a Friend
“It is better to take many injuries than to give one.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”
“It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.”
“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“It is better to tame yourself than to conquer your enemy.”
“It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...”
“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
“It is better to think positive than dwell on negative thoughts.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papers
“It is better to trade your bitterness with gratefulness.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.”