Something Better Quotes - Page 9

• There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Longing, Moments

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 15, 1895.

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• I know something better is on the road for me.

  Maya Angelou

  Knows

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2013.

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• The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Self Confidence, Thinking

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 18, 2014.

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• If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

  Michael J. Fox

  Moving, Possibility, Ifs

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• A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wisdom, Men, Gains

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• If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind, Today, Should

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• Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Matter, Spirit, Action

  "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel".

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• The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.

  James Redfield

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Ego

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• All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

  Charles Buxton

  Desire, Movement, Creatures

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• This place [USA] is exploding with young people who are - they're like Nietzsche's hammer - going to break everything and make something better. The creative energy in this country, and what people are coming up with is very hopeful.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Usa, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  Oswald Chambers

  Teaching, Character, Thinking

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.39, Discovery House

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• Remember that when God calls us to leave behind something, it means He has something better in store for us. Allow Him to replace the old with the new today!

  Paige Omartian

  Mean, Today, Remember

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• Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.

  Michael Ruppert

  Suicide, War, Bridges

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• Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Dirt, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1722, e-artnow

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• Let there be music in the home. If you have teenagers who have their own recordings, you will be prone to describe the sound as something other than music. Let them occasionally hear something better. Expose them to it. It will speak for itself. More of appreciation will come than you may think. It may not be spoken, but it will be felt, and its influence will become increasingly manifest as the years pass.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Music, Appreciation, Teenager

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• The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food­-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It's economic assets, it's status, it's all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill...but they are no better as a person.

  Bob Davids

  Thinking, Skills, Oil

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• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  Natalia Makarova

  Perfect, Done, Proud

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• God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Heart, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

  Garrison Keillor

  Eye, Details, Stories

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• The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

  Jay Roach

  Austin, Littles, Surprise

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

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• Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

  Linus Torvalds

  Mistake, Thinking, Errors

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• In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
  She knew that there was something better than paradise.

  Cesare Borgia

  Garden, Eden, Paradise

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• Not everyone’s a lifer in this world, but what separates the wheat from the chaff is intellect. Intellect is a true indication of taste. Some smart kids are standing in these EDM festivals, in the mud and heat and sick, and they’re thinking, “Yeah, this is fine for now, but this can’t be it forever”. There’s got to be something better – but they have to find it for themselves. That’s the next generation right there.

  Seth Troxler

  Smart, Kids, Thinking

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• The Lord has a plan for us in this life. He knows us. He knows what is best for us. Just because things are going well does not mean that we should not from time to time consider whether there might be something better. If we continue to live as we are living, will the promised blessings be fulfilled?

  Carlos A. Godoy

  Mean, Blessing, Doe

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• With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

  William Matthews

  Forever, Contentment, Longing

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