Better Life Quotes - Page 13

• These are people who wanted to provide for their family and wanted a better life. We've got to have a secure border. But we've also, we've got to act compassionately and recognize labor markets as well. ... I've never thought that it's [path to citizenship] a bad thing. If somebody is going to be here for 20, 30 years, to give them some skin in the game, if you will, to hold out the prospect of citizenship.

  Jeff Flake

  Years, Games, People

  "Jeff Flake: Marco Rubio key on immigration". www.politico.com.

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• I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

  Tracy Chapman

  Opportunity, Thinking, Significant Change

  "Tracy Chapman Comes Out of Her Shell / Publicity-shy singer-songwriter wants people to hear 'Telling Stories'" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. April 16, 2000.

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• Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

  Paul Cellucci

  War, Giving, People

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• [A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.

  Tom Harkin

  Opportunity, America, Impact

  "Raise the minimum wage" by Tom Harkin, www.politico.com. June 24, 2013.

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• There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.

  David Bowick

  Life Changing, Looks, Faces

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• I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Years, Long

  "Richard Branson: 'Capitalism has lost its way'' by Graham Snowdon, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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• To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Reform, Done

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

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• Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, School, Inspire

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• I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Country, Travel

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.356, Penguin

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• If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity.

  Umair Haque

  Choices, Humanity, Paper

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• The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.

  John Dewey

  Children, Childhood, Community

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.71, SIU Press

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• Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

  John Galsworthy

  Honesty, Jewels, Prejudice

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• There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful, and takes a longer time to separate from his parents and join the group. Neither one nor the other is smarter, better adjusted, or destined for a better life.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Children, School, Parent

  Ellen Galinsky (1990). “The Preschool Years”

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• Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

  Ali Suliman

  Daughter, Giving, Choices

  "Charisma Personified: Meeting Ali Suliman at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2014.

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• There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Differences, Receiving

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.17, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Medicine, Reign

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• Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don't move products. Instead, enrich lives.

  Steve Jobs

  Dream, Moving, Customers

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• The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.

  Warren Farrell

  Daughter, Lonely, Children

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Work, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

  George H. W. Bush

  Business, Men, Temptation

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• If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

  Bill Gates

  Practice, Use, Crops

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• Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of their hope for a better life and a decent future. Killed children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who play with remnants of war, instead of toys. Children who don't know how to smile. Please stop! I ask you with all my heart. It's time to stop. Stop it please!

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, War

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• We call that the American dream, but in fact, it's a universal dream of a better life that people have all over the world. It is a reminder that every country in the world has rich people. What makes America special is that we have millions and millions of people that are not rich, that through hard work and perseverance are able to be successful.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Country, Perseverance

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.

  Tertullian

  Kings, Judging, Soldier

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• Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.

  Thomas Friedman

  Children, People, Giving

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