Better Days Quotes - Page 2

• There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

  Jessye Norman

  Dream, Spiritual, Trouble

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humanity, Promise

  "Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

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• All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

  Wendell Berry

  Worry, Sticks, Being The Best

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think we all have had better days in competition.

  Carly Patterson

  Thinking, Competition

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• I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

  Bobby Knight

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Suffering, Bears, Trouble

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• The better day, the worse deed.

  Matthew Henry

  Deeds

  'An Exposition on the Old and New Testament' (1710) Genesis ch. 3, v. 6, gloss 2

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• The people behind me are the people behind Aristide. They are just looking for better days.

  Michel Martelly

  People, Behinds

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• When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.

  Ishmael Beah

  Father, Moving, Journey

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.54, Sarah Crichton Books

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• You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Laughing, Generations, Way

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• She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that every day would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was. Worked, paid the bills, and went to bed but never slept. Each morning the weight on her shoulders got heavier and heavier and each morning she wished for night to fall quickly so she could return to her bed to hug her pillows and wrap herself in the warmth of her blankets.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Morning

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• A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

  Art Linkletter

  Products, Finished

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• Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Spring, Men, Poverty

  Margaret Oliphant (1873). “Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life : in 2 Volumes”, p.34

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• How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

  Kent Beck

  Simplicity, Design, Forever

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• Once you start to ask patients about their priorities, you discover what they're living for. Once you uncover that, it helps you, as a doctor, decide what to fight for. And when we do that, we often end up identifying limits to the kind of care that people want. One's assumption is that these people are going to live shorter lives, but what we're doing is protecting quality of life. In doing so, you sometimes end up helping people live longer. Certainly, you help people live better days and with more purpose in their lives.

  Atul Gawande

  Fighting, People, Priorities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  Abdallah II

  Opportunity, People, Needs

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• The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.

  Walter Scott

  Wind, Long, Way

  Sir Walter Scott, J. W. Lake (1843). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.1

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• I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.

  Rosa Parks

  Positive, Pain, Thinking

  "Standing Up for Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, October 31, 2005.

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• Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Sunday, Champagne, Feels

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• When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.

  Minka Kelly

  Workout, Cycling, Good Work

  "Minka Kelly's Diet and Workout Tips" By Ashley Mateo, www.self.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

  Frank Scoblete

  Blessed, Player

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• No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

  Guy Finley

  Real, Firsts, Facts

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• We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Life, Pain, Fire

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• Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Believe, Responsibility, Acceptance

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• I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Expectations

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