Better Than You Quotes - Page 13

• God's way is better than your way. His plan is bigger than your plan. His dream for your life is more rewarding, more fulfilling, better than you've ever dreamed of. Now stay open and let God do it His way.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Dream, Way

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• It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Ideas, Done, Exciting

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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• Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

  Randy Anderson

  Excellence, Being The Best

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• The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Feel Better, Thinking

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• No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, Men, Sea

  "The Works of Henry W. Longfellow".

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• If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
  “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

  Willa Cather

  Giving Up, Hate, Fire

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1481, eBookIt.com

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• A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Father, Winning

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• Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: 'I can do it better than you,' but simply: 'I can do it.' What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

  Ayn Rand

  Attitude, Effort, Consciousness

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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• You are doing better than you think you are.

  Alan Cohen

  Motivational, Thinking, Change Yourself

  Alan Cohen (2007). “Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It”, p.45, Bantam

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• When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Play, Violinist, Ifs

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• Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.

  Robin Sharma

  Found, Encouragers, Destroyers

  Twitter post from Oct 20, 2014

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• Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Important, Trying, Might

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• A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

  Cornel West

  Rich Life, Trying, World

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• A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Feel Better, How You Feel

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• Leadership is less about the position you hold than the influence you have. It's about doing world-class work, playing at your peak,
  and leaving people better than you found them. It's about Leading Without a Title.

  Robin Sharma

  Class, People, Leaving

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• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, People, Important

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