Better Place Quotes - Page 6

• After September, I've reflected on the campaign, and being a new father of twin boys, I really feel like I owe it to the kids in the city to give this a shot and make this district a better place.

  Jeffrey O. Henley

  Father, Kids, Boys

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• When I was at home I was in a better place

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Touchstones

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [16]

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• If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Preaching The Gospel, Needs, World

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.58, Gospel For Asia Books

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• If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

  David G. McAfee

  Prayer, Looks, World

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• The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

  Bruce Mau

  Ideas, Design, Fundamentals

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• It’s really simple actually. It’s just, try and make people happy. Maybe you have to learn with time. Maybe you have to learn it the hard way. But as long as you learn it, you’re going to make the world a better place.

  Zach Sobiech

  Simple, Long, People

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• To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

  Tommy Chong

  Attitude, Rights, People

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• Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Perfect, Taoism

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• That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of God, who also longs for this. He does not want to be an option in our lives. He does not want to be an appendage, a tagalong. Neither does any woman. God is essential. He wants us to need him-desperately. Eve is essential. She has an irreplaceable role to play. And so you'll see that women are endowed with fierce devotion, an ability to suffer great hardships, a vision to make the world a better place

  Stasi Eldredge

  Heart, Adventure, Play

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• President Obama will be going to Disney World where he'll unveil his new plan to create jobs. And what better place for the president to talk about his jobs plan than Fantasyland?

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, President, World

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• I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Twitter post from May 30, 2016

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• Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.

  Jef Mallett

  Noses, World, What You Love

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• I want to leave the world a better place for horses and people.

  Monty Roberts

  Horse, People, World

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• You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Motivational, Leadership, Lds

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Keys, Creating

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• My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.

  Henry James

  Children, Father, Europe

  Gabrielle Vigot, Monica Corwin, Pan Zador, Coco Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Trying, Alarms, World

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• I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

  John Zorn

  Beautiful, Running, Philosophy

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• Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

  Rainn Wilson

  People, Heartfelt, Stories

  "Rainn Wilson talks about Hollywood, his family and the Baha'i Faith". U.S. Baha'i News Interview, news.bahai.org. May 24, 2007.

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  Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Responsibility, Successful, People

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

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• I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Mean, Waiting, Dying

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• The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Happiness, Wise, Believe

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• Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Nature, Environmental, Trying

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• I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Thinking, Trying, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out.

  Dana Gould

  Simple, People, World

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