Better Life Quotes - Page 11

• I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Years, Long

  "Richard Branson: 'Capitalism has lost its way'' by Graham Snowdon, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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• It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

  Walter E. Williams

  People, Seeking

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• [A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.

  Tom Harkin

  Opportunity, America, Impact

  "Raise the minimum wage" by Tom Harkin, www.politico.com. June 24, 2013.

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• My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life. When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much. I still have plenty of fight left in me.

  Andrea Navedo

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

  "Actor Andrea Navedo – Overcoming a tough upbringing and staying healthy and balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

  Tracy Chapman

  Opportunity, Thinking, Significant Change

  "Tracy Chapman Comes Out of Her Shell / Publicity-shy singer-songwriter wants people to hear 'Telling Stories'" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. April 16, 2000.

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• I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

  Criss Jami

  Self, Contentment, Taught

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?

  Brendon Burchard

  Running, Real, Inspire

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• Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place on this planet to "create a better life for all" is functioning in a way that generates that outcome.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Outcomes, Way, Institutions

  "Overcoming Separation Theology. Neale Donald Walsch - Author: Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• [Donald] Trump is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what they want: a fair chance to have a better life economically.

  Jeff Sessions

  Talking, African American, Want

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• The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service.

  Kathy Calvin

  Children, Fighting, Thinking

  "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• It is going to have healthy food and exercise mixed together. With smaller portions, and more exercise, you live a better life.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Exercise, Healthy, Together

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, School, Inspire

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• There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.

  David Bowick

  Life Changing, Looks, Faces

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• I feel like what's come out of me is the gift God has given me just to encourage people, to help them know that there's a better life.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Helping, Given

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love.

  Byron Katie

  Opportunity, Giving, Going Away

  "On Snakes, Sticks, and Jedi Mind Tricks: An Interview with Byron Katie". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. January 4, 2017.

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• As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

  Tracy Morgan

  Children, Able, Wanted

  "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.

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• America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

  "Obama to Immigration Activists: 'No Force On Earth Can Stop Us'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 2, 2014.

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• The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.

  Eileen Simpson

  Religious, Educational, Home

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• The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

  Vikas Swarup

  Despair, Slums

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• Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

  Sophocles

  Father, Opportunity, Giving

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”

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• America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Children, America, Poverty

  "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

  Deval Patrick

  Country, Thinking, Community

  "Democrat – MA Gov. Deval Patrick". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. April 13, 2011.

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• Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and I'm wrong, and there's nothing after, I will have had a better life than you, because I do believe there was something. And I couldn't argue with that, even though I wanted to.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Years, Atheism

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• It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].

  Richard Simmons

  Dream, Growing Up, Teaching

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Bail, Santa

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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