Better Things To Do Quotes

• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

  Ani DiFranco

  Depression, Alive, Care

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• I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.

  Dylan Moran

  Rubbish, Things To Do

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

  PZ Myers

  People, Half, Credibility

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• You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

  Wentworth Miller

  Education, People, Grind

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• I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

  Buddy Rich

  Cutting, Thinking, Hands

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• I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

  Linford Christie

  Athlete, Things To Do, Feels

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• I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

  David Gerrold

  Kindness, Philosophy, Commitment

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• The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no? ... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.

  Christopher Paolini

  Jobs, Wall, Tired

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1435, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, People, Romance

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• I've got better things to do than to find my individuality in that particular area. But if it's important to me, I've got to seek my own path.

  Lewis Schiff

  Individuality, Important, Path

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

  James Purefoy

  Want, Tvs, Life Is

  Source: collider.com

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• It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Income, Difficult, Mankind

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• I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Thinking, Expression

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• Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on television or in "real life." The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some "high" to feel worthwhile.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Real, Reading

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

  Brian Andreas

  Flower, Dark, Garden

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• My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

  Michael J. Fox

  Different, Spirituality, Notion

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.179, Random House

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• Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!

  George Darley

  Suicide, Mean, Self

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• Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Use, Wells

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.906, Simon and Schuster

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• For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Artist, Men, Supposing That

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?

  Francis Chan

  Crazy, Believe, Waste

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.133, David C Cook

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