I Quotes
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“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.”
“It is better to travel on right road than the wrong way.”
“It is better to travel on the rough right road than smooth wrong way.”
“It is better to travel, than to arrive”
“It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?”
“It is better to travel well then arrive.”
“It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success.”
“It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.”
“It is better to trust the Divine Eternal God than to put confidence in mere mortal man.”
“It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.”
“It is better to turned many souls from sin than to make them stumble in sin.”
“It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.”
“It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.”
“It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.”
Source: Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects
“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”
Source: The Revolt of the Angels
“It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.”
“It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because you have nothing much to do. You have not to go here and there and visit people and become a member of the Rotary Club. You are saved from so much nonsense that I felt really jealous of you! Enjoy it! And feel sorry for everybody else! They are poorer and you can become immensely rich. And the art of that richness is witnessing. Witnessing is another name for meditation.”
“It is better to wait until you get the right thing, at the right time and in the right place; than to race for the wrong thing, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, for it yields nothing but disgrace.”
“It is better to wait until you get the right thing at the right time and place than to race for the wrong thing at the wrong time and place, for it yields nothing but disgrace.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“It is better to wake up alone, knowing you are alone, than to wake up with someone, still being lonely.”
“It is better to walk alone on the narrow way than to follow a crowd that has strayed from the truth.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“It is better to walk in light than to dance in darkness.”
“It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.”
“It is better to watch things then to do them.”
“It is better to weep in a pile of gold than to weep in the mud of the shadows of the valley.”
“It is better to will the good than to know the truth.”
“It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.”
“It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.”
“It is better to worship than worry.”
“It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.”
“It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.”
“It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobey yourself. I don't know if I like my poems, but I know that if I hadn't written them I'd be dumber, more useless, more individualistic. I publish them because they're alive. I don't know if they're good, but they deserve to live.”
Source: Poeta chileno
“It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.”
“It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you are in the light. To remove yourself from the things you desire or things you find difficult to deal with is no answer.”
“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”
“It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment.”
“It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.”
Source: Sammlung
“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
Source: Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt
“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts.”
Source: Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt
“It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.”
Source: The ... Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Or, a Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself : Including Also the Notes of Lord Chief Justice Hale and Lord Chancellor Nottingham, and an Analysis of Littleton, Written by an Unknown Hand in 1658 - 9
“It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.”
“It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.”
“It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.”
“It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.”
“It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten another’s dull task. What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchanges of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?”
Source: The Open Door
“It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed.”
Source: The High King
“It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people...”
“It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.”
“It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.”
“It is beyond logic that we see the light.”