Better Than You Quotes - Page 5

• Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.

  Sheila Johnson

  Needs, Behind You, Laurels

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.135, Univ of California Press

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• Respect yourself and others will follow suit. Most people will not treat you any better than you treat yourself.

  Leon Brown

  People, Suits, Respect Yourself

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• No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Path, Placement, Knows

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• So go ahead and face that fear, make that effort, move forward into new territory and fully live the grand possibilities with which you're blessed. Boldly face life, and you'll find it to be better than you ever imagined.

  Ralph Marston

  Moving, Blessed, Effort

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• Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

  Richard Bach

  Education, What Matters, People

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• Anything you can do I can do better,
  I can do anything better than you.

  Irving Berlin

  Competition, Can Do, I Can

  "Anything You Can Do" (song) (1946)

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• Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Thinking, Brain, Use

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• O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Age, Should

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• The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

  Ice T

  Sports, Rap, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Hockey, Goal

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• What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Hockey, Men

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• You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

  Sidney Poitier

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• That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.

  Victoria Laurie

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Effort, Arrogance

  Ludvig von Mises' letter to Ayn Rand praising Atlas Shrugged (January 23, 1958) as quoted in Jorg Guido Hulsmann "Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism", September 4, 2007.

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• Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which proved generally erroneous; while toleration led us invariably to form just conclusions, by judging from actions and not from opinions.

  Charles James Fox

  Ignorance, Judging, Doubt

  "Charles James Fox: A Man for the People" by Loren Reid, (p. 261), 1969.

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• The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Arrogant, Firsts, Assuming

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• Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Song, Entering, Moments

  "Sri Chinmoy Answers, part 1-33" by Sri Chinmoy, (#337, Part 8), 1996.

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• Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

  Theophilus London

  Years, Twenties, Brooklyn

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• I'll never understand why people go to movie theaters to have conversations. Going to the movies to talk is like going to a restaurant to cook. The idea is that you have paid your money to have someone do something better than you can do it yourself.

  Rita Rudner

  Ideas, People, Restaurants

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

  Lois Wyse

  Business, Moving, People

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Thinking, Growing

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• A computer is a wonderful and friendly machine, because it's always just a little better than you are. You're always a little bit behind, but it stays right there with you anyway. It allows you to make the mistakes, and then to try to find out what the mistakes are, and then to repair the mistakes. It's always your friend. It quits on you, but it doesn't leave the apartment.

  Frederick Barthelme

  Mistake, Trying, Friendly

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• Leave this world a little better than you found it.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Creativity, Design, Found

  Baden-Powell's Last Message, 1941.

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• In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

  Lori Greiner

  Photography, Design, Hats

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