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A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it — Jack Welch

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal. — Swami Vivekananda

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience ... when I was young I wasn't scared about anything — Thierry Henry

Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one. — Rosemary Sutcliff

Better you forgive than being right. Put your pride in your pocket and bring out Love for CHRIST sake. — James C. Uwandu

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell? — Candace Bushnell

What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else? — Sue Grafton

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead. — Joe Strummer

Right away we were very good at it, and you like what you are good at, and being better than other people at something is fun. Is that love? — Meg Howrey

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable. — George MacDonald

Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me. — Tabitha Robin

Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are. — Jeremy Clarkson

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense. — Walker Percy

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. — Jack Bowman

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick. — Thomas Adams

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world. — Maya Angelou

It's better to be a good person than a famous person. — Jenny Holzer

The one thing Hugo did better than almost anyone else, the one constant for much of his life, was being taken away in a most ignominious way. — Craig Lancaster

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records. — Stephen Stills

I feel great because you are even better than I first fucking thought. And I love being right. — Ella Frank

Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb. — Nathaniel Philbrick

His second ... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it. — Jane Austen

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. — Brad Boney

He's a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you're going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than one who's really on the ball. — Cory Doctorow

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all. — Jane Austen

It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world. — Bram Stoker

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot. — Rex Stout

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

No music while making love ... the sound of the love being made is better than music. — Jhene Aiko

It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure — Jules Verne

Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy — Neil Young

Being alone is better than being your whore. — Lori Jenessa Nelson

To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective. — Richie Norton

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success — Malcolm McLaren

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. — Henry David Thoreau

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie — Anthony Venn-Brown

We are friends and that is it. Maybe I wish it were more, but being friends is better than nothing at all. — Sadie Grubor

Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy. — Greyson Chance

Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in. — Walter Dean Myers

Better than being a dog leashed by a psychotic monster. — Sarah J. Maas

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms. — Kevin Garnett

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat. — Julie Burchill

I've come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone. — Steve Maraboli

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. — Socrates

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. — Ben Kingsley

What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty? — Dorothea Benton Frank

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday. — Harry Wong

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority. — Emily Gould

It's better to be alone and keep your dignity than to be in a relationship where you always sacrifice your self respect. — Auliq Ice

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again. — Belinda Alexandra

Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard. — CM Punk

The dead, being wiser than the living, know freedom is always better than revenge. — Michael G. Williams

Becoming is better than being. Perfectionism doesn't exist. We need to stretch ourselves and continue learning. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me. — Dennis Wholey

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid. — Carl Sagan

There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in. — Paula Deen

Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America. — George J. Borjas

Pia. "Maybe I'm being paranoid."
"Paranoid is a lot better than stupid, sugar." Eva. — Thea Harrison

It's better to be a "misfit" than a "one-size-fits-all"! — Mandy Hale

There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing. — Condoleezza Rice

It's better to be wise than to be smart. — Alan Alda

A little danger is better than a lot of safety if being safe means being without the person with whom you were meant to share your life. — Lisa C. Temple

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be. — Dawn Gluskin

If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology. — Heidi Julavits

Being good to people is always better than giving any sermon. Being kind & caring to others speaks much greater than any words can ever do. — Timothy Pina

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle. — Thomas Sowell

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy. — Harlan Ellison

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much. — Jemima Kirke

We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last. — Ray Hudson

In this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor. — Orhan Pamuk

We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own. — Hill Harper

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be. — Mike Tyson

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done. — Chris Ware

It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill. — Oswald Chambers

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer. — David Shapiro

Alessandro learned yet again that the joy of escape is better than the joy of merely being free. — Mark Helprin

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask. — Jason Calacanis

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner. — Simon Travaglia

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits. — Dan O'Brien

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. — Tom Felton

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live. — Julius Lester

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself. — Lauren Myracle

There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others. — Amanda Mosher

Be yourself
it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else. — Ethel Merman

For in her stead. It's not the same, of course. But it's better to love others than to sit miserable without loving or being loved in return. — Rose Gordon

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch. — Julie Delpy

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones. — Philippos

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back. — Judith Viorst

Anger was so much better than fear. To be the one inflicting pain was better than being in pain yourself. — Karina Halle

Better be cheaper, than being fake — Sir Gusta

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. — James Herriot

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter. — H.L. Mencken

Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him. — Elisabeth Elliot

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians. — Theodore C. Sorensen

Becoming is better than being. The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be. — Carol S. Dweck

Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do. — Frank Shorter

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar