Better Man Quotes - Page 5

• The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rain, Men, Too Late

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.125, Macmillan

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• What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

  Ray Davies

  Blow, Men, Air

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• I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Heart, Men

  FaceBook post by Barack Obama from Aug 25, 2012

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• Branch Rickey made me a better man.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Branches, Made

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• War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, War, Pride

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

  George S. Clason

  Work, Men, Doe

  George S. Clason (1983). “The Richest Man in Babylon”, Bantam

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• If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.

  Chris Claremont

  Men, Thinking, Destruction

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• We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

  Sydney Pollack

  Men, Ideas

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• A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, May, Victim

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• Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Feel Better, Men, Tea

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Hungry Hill”, p.320, Hachette UK

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• Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!

  Noel Gallagher

  Dream, Song, Home

  "Song: It's Getting Better (Man!!) (Be Here Now)". August 21, 1997.

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• Let there be worse cotton and better men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Men, Cotton

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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