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• A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wisdom, Men, Gains

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• Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Desire, Show Me, Shows

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.126, Modern Library

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• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  Natalia Makarova

  Perfect, Done, Proud

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• If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

  Michael J. Fox

  Moving, Possibility, Ifs

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• I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living".

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• A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.

  Blake Bailey

  Men, Giving, Touching

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• Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, 'Where's the greater benefit in this event?'

  Jack Canfield

  Events, Looks, Benefits

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• Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

  Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

  Peace, Men, Civilization

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• The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Doing You, Television, Potato Chips

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• When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Regret, Someday, Wanted

  Bethenny Frankel (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

  Leo Strauss

  Political, Wish, Action

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.10, University of Chicago Press

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• Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.

  Jonathan Ive

  Caring, Goal, Trying

  The Globe and Mail, January 2007.

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• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  Clara Barton

  Success, Nursing, Past

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• If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

  Jonathan Ive

  Missing, Trying, Possibility

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• Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these over the years, and I can answer without batting an eye: No. Accomplishments, applause, awards and fortune are rewards that often come as the result of hard work and a determined spirit, but there is something bigger. Something better. Something that will outlast the winningest season, the plushest corner office, the heftiest bonus and the loudest cheers. That something can only be found when we look beyond the final score.

  Tom Osborne

  Cheer, Blessed, Hard Work

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• I always want to write something better than the last book.

  Tracy Kidder

  Book, Writing, Want

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• All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Doe, Patterns, Sometimes

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• Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

  Martin Yan

  People, Giving, Trying

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  When I hear people talk about juggling or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy because sacrifice infers that there was something better to do than the thing - than being with your children.

  Chris Rock

  Children, Crazy, Sacrifice

  "Chris Rock On The Funny Business Of Finding Success". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 8, 2012.

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• Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Beautiful, Running

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• My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

  Cleveland Abbe

  New York, Ignorance, Weather

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• Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

  Maxim Gorky

  Optimistic, Men, Justice

  "The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.

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• As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

  Cindy Crawford

  Mom, Mother, Stills

  "Cindy Crawford on motherhood, how she keps her looks and.. the moment that defined the supermodel" by Mickey McMonagle, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. February 5, 2010.

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• Don't leave something good to find something better. Once you realize you had the best, the best has found better.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Realizing, Found

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• Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

  Saint Augustine

  Fighting, Temptation, Suffering

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