Better Man Quotes - Page 2

• I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

  Alan Ladd

  Men, Faces, Figures

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• Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Men, Fleeting

  Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

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• The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fighting, Men, Fellow Man

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.154, University of Chicago Press

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• It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Teaching, Men

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10789, Aeterna Press

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• God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Horse, Teaching, Son

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.

  Archibald Rutledge

  Sports, Character, Past

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• I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

  Samuel Beckett

  Butterfly, Men, Silence

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Riverrun Pr

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• By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Men, Shame

  "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.

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• The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Mind, Weakness

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• If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

  Keith Richards

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Teacher

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

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• And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Girl, Attitude, Father

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• I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And 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

  Family, Children, Heart

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• Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Loyalty, Writing, Passion

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• It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

  Owen Wister

  Men, Two, People

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• Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

  Homer

  Mother, Strong, Powerful

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• You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Love You, Men

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

  George Eliot

  New Beginnings, Men, Finding Yourself

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.91, Penguin

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• You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

  Bob Dole

  Men, America, Slogans

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

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• The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

  Nelson Algren

  Work, Men, Assessing

  "Nelson Algren, The Art of Fiction No. 11". Interview with Alston Anderson, Terry Southern, www.theparisreview.org. 1955.

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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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• Experience really does make you better, man.

  Alan Vega

  Men, Experience, Doe

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• Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

  Joseph Addison

  Dream, Future, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.463

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• People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, People, Political

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• Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.

  Martin Andersen Nexø

  Mother Daughter, Honesty, Father

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• The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

  Arnold Bennett

  Book, Reading, Cutting

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd

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