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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Dwelling, May

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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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• I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Heart, Men

  FaceBook post by Barack Obama from Aug 25, 2012

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• Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

  George S. Clason

  Work, Men, Doe

  George S. Clason (1983). “The Richest Man in Babylon”, Bantam

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• Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!

  Noel Gallagher

  Dream, Song, Home

  "Song: It's Getting Better (Man!!) (Be Here Now)". August 21, 1997.

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• If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.

  Chris Claremont

  Men, Thinking, Destruction

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• We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

  Sydney Pollack

  Men, Ideas

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• A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, May, Victim

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• Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Feel Better, Men, Tea

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Hungry Hill”, p.320, Hachette UK

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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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• War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, War, Pride

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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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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• Branch Rickey made me a better man.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Branches, Made

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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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