Better Off Quotes - Page 11

• Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.

  Steve Pavlina

  Rejects You, Thought Provoking, Definitions

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• If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Heart, Mean, People

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• There may be times in my life where a situation looks bleak or doesn't make sense, but having faith in God allows me to know that He will take me through that situation and make me better off than I was before.

  Dan Ellis

  Looks, May, Have Faith

  "A conversation with Carolina Hurricanes goalie Dan Ellis". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. March 2013.

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• If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.

  A.J. Ayer

  Religious, Children, War

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• I don't know. I'd be a lot better off if I would've studied more when I was growing up, you know?

  Brian Regan

  Growing Up, Knows, Ifs

  "Brian Regan Live". Comedy album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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• Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Running, Feel Better, Golf

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• I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country's better off now than when I started.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Children, Names

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• A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Men, Deception

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• California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'

  Craig Kilborn

  California, Asking, Four

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• Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would think the place would be better off if Iran had nuclear weapons. The main enemies are the United States and Isreal, in the 80, 90 percent range.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Iran, Enemy

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I don't rely on anybody except my own judgment. I don't get much input. I don't know if that's helped me or if I would be better off if I did rely on someone.

  Woody Allen

  Would Be, Input, Judgment

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• A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, School, Yearbook

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• I think some of those guys might actually be better off if they had more wussy in them.

  Steve-O

  Thinking, Guy, Might

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Talking, America

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• I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

  David Axelrod

  Thinking, People, Able

  "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

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• I feel like the harder the work, the better off I'll be later in the season. If I don't work out, it's not so much my letting me down as it is letting everybody else down.

  Mark Prior

  Work Out, Harder, Feels

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• You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

  Harvey Mackay

  Bored, Scared, Being Scared

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Jul 05, 2011

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• I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

  David Axelrod

  Thinking, President, Industry

  "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

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• Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.

  David McCullough

  Self, Quests, Sometimes

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

  Seth

  Simple, Would Be, Upside Down

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• My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.191, Penguin

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• You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Kids, Long

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January 2010.

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• Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.

  Bill Burr

  Running, Destiny, Hot And Cold

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.

  Johnny Carson

  Children, Kids, Divorce

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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