Better Man Quotes

• Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Men, Looks, Method

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1985). “How In This World Can I Be Holy?”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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• Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

  Gillian Flynn

  Real, Men, Giving

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.168, Broadway Books

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• I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

  Tom Cruise

  Father, Believe, Men

  "Tom Cruise Talks 'Rock of Ages' and Oprah-gate in his 2012 Playboy Interview". Interview with Michael Fleming, www.playboy.com. June 2012.

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• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation.

  Mother Teresa

  Buddhist, Believe, Men

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• Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

  Jill Shalvis

  Jobs, Wine, Dark

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• You make me want to be a better man.

  Jack Nicholson

  Love, Romantic, Men

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• Let each new year find you a better person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  New Year, Years, Old Year

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• Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

  Samuel Gompers

  Independent, Men, Thinking

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• Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Men, Want

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• There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

  Kevin Drew

  Men, Strive

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Dwelling, May

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• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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

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• If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Winning, Men, Nominations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

  George Meredith

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 12

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• A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Men, Glasses

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• I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

  Jake Owen

  Daughter, Mother, Selfish

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• ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Men, People

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• You know,” Cole said. “My mom once told me a boy would know he’d become a man when he stopped putting himself first. She said a girl would come along and I wouldn’t be able to get her out of my mind. She said this girl would frustrate me, confuse me, and challenge me, but she would also make me do whatever was necessary to be a better man–the man she needed. With you, I want to be better. I want to be what you need. Tell me what you need.

  Gena Showalter

  Girl, Mom, Boys

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• Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

  James Thurber

  Lonely, Character, Men

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.1162, Library of America

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• I'm scared that every girl I care for will find a better man and end up happier in the longrun

  Drake

  Happy, Girl, Men

  Song: Missin' You

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• I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Men, Rocks

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• God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Horse, Teaching, Son

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
  By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
  While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
  By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Weed, Men, Garden

  1911 'The Glory of the Garden'.

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• The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Men, May, Daily Life

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