18 Quotes Tagged: better

You have value and you deserve better.

Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity.

Hold this thought: Right when you are most defeated–suicidal, perhaps–exhausted, positive of perpetual failure: this is when the epiphany is likely to arrive. One needs to be beaten down to think, and to think so as to escape. To escape death or boredom or the second act that simply will not do as you wish. Or the marriage that is stalled. Whatever is bearing down on you is a great teacher. Calm down and listen and crawl from beneath it a better person.

So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are wrong, that is not what better means. What better means is that your position has the potential, if played correctly, to turn out well. So do not think that when you are better and when you are attacking that you can just force mate. That is not what it is about. Often the way to play best, the way to play within the position, is to maintain it.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Ich kann freilich nicht sagen, ob es besser werden wird wenn es anders wird; aber so viel kann ich sagen, es muß anders werden, wenn es gut werden soll.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.

You're going to use experiences to become either bitter or better. To get better you must reflect on your mistakes.

Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

But the christian story of God the Father putting his son to death, or employing people to do it, (for that is the plain language of the story,) cannot be told by a parent to a child; and to tell him that it was done to make mankind happier and better, is making the story still worse; as if mankind could be improved by the example of murder; and to tell him that all this is a mystery, is only making an excuse for the incredibility of it.