Better Life Quotes - Page 12

• Nobody's perfect and I don't want to try and portray that but I'm genuinely doing the best I can out here; trying to support my family the best that I can, trying to make them proud and happy and everybody having the best life they can live. I'm trying to provide a better life for them than I had.

  Chris Johnson

  Perfect, Support, Trying

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• Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Improvement, Firsts, Better Person

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• If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

  Beau Willimon

  Children, Hard Work, Play

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• The more you meditate the better life gets.

  David Lynch

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Brain, Damage

  "An Earful From Mike Tyson". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. October 03, 1999.

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• The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.

  Eileen Simpson

  Religious, Educational, Home

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• America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

  "Obama to Immigration Activists: 'No Force On Earth Can Stop Us'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 2, 2014.

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• As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

  Tracy Morgan

  Children, Able, Wanted

  "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.

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• For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love.

  Byron Katie

  Opportunity, Giving, Going Away

  "On Snakes, Sticks, and Jedi Mind Tricks: An Interview with Byron Katie". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. January 4, 2017.

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• The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

  Vikas Swarup

  Despair, Slums

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• If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Bail, Santa

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

  Sophocles

  Father, Opportunity, Giving

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”

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• I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator

  Assata Shakur

  Girl, Real, Helping Others

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• Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Teaching, Men, Imagination

  "Lectures on the Essence of Religion". "Atheism alone a Positive View", en.wikiquote.org. 1851.

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• Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

  Colin Beavan

  People, Vision, Environment

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• The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families.

  Cesar Chavez

  Dark, Years, Doors

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• It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].

  Richard Simmons

  Dream, Growing Up, Teaching

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and I'm wrong, and there's nothing after, I will have had a better life than you, because I do believe there was something. And I couldn't argue with that, even though I wanted to.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Years, Atheism

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• I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

  Deval Patrick

  Country, Thinking, Community

  "Democrat – MA Gov. Deval Patrick". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. April 13, 2011.

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• America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Children, America, Poverty

  "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

  Maya Angelou

  Party, Safety, Effort

  1976 Singin'and Swingin'and Getting Merry Like Christmas, ch.9.

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• Just the responsibility of wanting to see my mother have a better life; making sure my sister had a better life. I went ahead and accepted that responsibility when I was young and it paid off. That was really the only goal.

  Yo Gotti

  Mother, Responsibility, Goal

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• Republican Party is the party that stands for the people who are trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home, who are trying to give their kids a better life. And the only way that's possible is through the America free enterprise system.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Kids, Home

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here for the same reason that families have always come here-for the hope that in America, they could build a better life for themselves and their families. Like the waves of immigrants that came before them and the Hispanic Americans whose families have been here for generations, the recent arrival of Latino immigrants will only enrich our country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, America, Immigration

  Barack Obama's Remarks to NALEO, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2008.

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• I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

  Criss Jami

  Self, Contentment, Taught

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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