Better Than You Quotes - Page 8

• Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

  Sidney Poitier

  Thinking, Talking, Trying

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• Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

  Paulo Coelho

  Decision, Tragedy, Wish

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• And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Likes, Mets

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Maxwell Maltz (1960). “Psychocybernetics”

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• You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Winning, Guy

  Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”

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• There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.

  Pat Summitt

  Running, Perseverance, Differences

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.155, Crown Business

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• I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

  Shawn Johnson

  Motivational, Sports, Gymnastics

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• When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose.

  Michael Josephson

  Winning, Competition, May

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• As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Player, Cities

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• I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.

  Sandra Bullock

  Meaningful, Teacher, People

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• You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Solitude, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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• After you have a big game, you can't just say, 'That's it, I've arrived,' by any means. I'm always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that's important.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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• Unremembered and afar
  I watched as I watched a star,
  Through darkness struggling into view
  And I loved you better than you knew.

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Sexy, Stars, Struggle

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• If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Perfection

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• Victory with honor and integrity is the real goal of sport. Sometimes it happens that others are better than you. I could never beat Carl Lewis in a hundred-yard dash, but my victory might be in running faster today than I did yesterday.

  Don Sparks

  Sports, Running, Integrity

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• Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Character, Arguing, Knows

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• Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

  John Currin

  Clever, Style, Trying

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• There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

  Pele

  Training, Get Better, Harder

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• No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

  Alexander Wang

  Brands

  "Alexander Wang: Fashion's Boy Wonder" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2011.

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• Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.

  Donald Glover

  Mad, Hustle, Doing You

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• The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.

  Richard M. Eyre

  Beautiful, Photography, Magic Moments

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• I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

  Linus Pauling

  Errors, Golden, Twenties

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• The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

  Ina Garten

  Children, Flavor, Want

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Dream, Country, Heart

  "O'Connell Correspondence, Vol IV". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Letter to Bishop Doyle (N. 1860), 1831.

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• If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Children, Mean

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