Better Man Quotes

• Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Men, Looks, Method

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1985). “How In This World Can I Be Holy?”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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• Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

  Gillian Flynn

  Real, Men, Giving

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.168, Broadway Books

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• We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation.

  Mother Teresa

  Buddhist, Believe, Men

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• I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

  Tom Cruise

  Father, Believe, Men

  "Tom Cruise Talks 'Rock of Ages' and Oprah-gate in his 2012 Playboy Interview". Interview with Michael Fleming, www.playboy.com. June 2012.

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• Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

  Jill Shalvis

  Jobs, Wine, Dark

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• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You make me want to be a better man.

  Jack Nicholson

  Love, Romantic, Men

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• Let each new year find you a better person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  New Year, Years, Old Year

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• Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

  Samuel Gompers

  Independent, Men, Thinking

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• There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

  Kevin Drew

  Men, Strive

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Winning, Men, Nominations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rain, Men, Too Late

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.125, Macmillan

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• I'm so happy with the show. There's nothing in this life I'll ever regret - bad or good. I look back, learn from it, and be a better man the next day.

  Luis D. Ortiz

  Regret, Men, Next Day

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• Branch Rickey made me a better man.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Branches, Made

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• A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sports, Player, Men

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mistake, Thinking, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Who can justly say aught against Joseph Smith? I was as well acquainted with him, as any man. I do not believe that his father and mother knew him any better than I did. I do not think that a man lives on the earth that knew him any better than I did; and I am bold to say that, Jesus Christ excepted, no better man ever lived or does live upon this earth. I am his witness

  Brigham Young

  Mother, Jesus, Father

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• Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Men, Want

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• Experience really does make you better, man.

  Alan Vega

  Men, Experience, Doe

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• CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Knowledge, Men, Consolation

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.41, University of Georgia Press

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• The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Men, May, Daily Life

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• I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Men, Rocks

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• Let there be worse cotton and better men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Men, Cotton

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

  Ray Davies

  Blow, Men, Air

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