Better Life Quotes - Page 3

• When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

  Thornton Wilder

  Peace, War, Thinking

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• Yeah, it's whatever. You know, feeling good, living better.

  Drake

  Life, Feel Good, Feelings

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• The sooner every party breaks up the better.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Party, Break

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 25 (Mr Woodhouse)

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• One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Goal, Desire

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• You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life for them and their children. And, in the main, they succeeded. It is hard to find any century in history, in which so large a number of people experience so great an improvement in the conditions of their life, in the opportunities open to them, as in the period of the 19th and early 20th century.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Mind, Body, Virtue

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• In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

  Jeff Hawkins

  School, People, United States

  "America’s Shameful Moments" by Jeff Hawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• If we can learn to deal with our discomfort and just relax into it we'll have a better life.

  Mellody Hobson

  Relax, Deals, Discomfort

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• I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

  Lauren Groff

  Desire, Intense, Idealism

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• The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Real, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause and a purpose larger than ourselves. And that cause is to make liberty worth having, to make the pursuit of happiness deeper than the quest for personal pleasure, and to leave a legacy of progress and possibility.

  Eric Liu

  Love, Country, Children

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• City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

  Edward Hoagland

  Country, Time, Future

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

  Bob Harper

  Life, Talking, Today

  FaceBook post by Bob Harper from Mar 14, 2012

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• Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Jesus, Doors

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• "Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who had enjoyed a better life. In spite of the dreadful pain, his face radiated happiness," said Mother, nodding her head comfortably. "Happiness drives out pain, as fire burns out fire."

  Mary Lavin

  Happiness, Mother, Pain

  Mary Lavin (1970). “Happiness, and other stories”, Constable & Company Limited

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• My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

  Jillian Michaels

  People, Trying, Agendas

  "Jillian Michaels On Motherhood And Her Return to The Biggest Loser". Interview with Carita Rizzo, www.tvguide.com. January 4, 2013.

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• No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.

  Richard Bach

  Law Of Attraction, Matter, Imagine

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• The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.

  Julian Simon

  Size, Reason Why, Population

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• The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

  Michael Josephson

  Hate, Keys, Appreciate

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• There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Horse, Fear, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• New York accepts everybody. It doesn't matter your sex, color, religion. Everybody works together to create a better life.

  Elie Tahari

  Sex, New York, Color

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• Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, People, Microsoft

  Rolling Stone Interview, June 16, 1994.

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• Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.

  Germaine Greer

  Life Changing, Book, Ordinary

  "Germaine Greer" by Laura Miller, www.salon.com. June 22, 1999.

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• One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, People, Secret

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What the American people hope -– what they deserve -– is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Children, Differences

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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