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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
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
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
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
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure
— Jules Verne
Being alone is better than being your whore.
— Lori Jenessa Nelson
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 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
Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
— Emily Gould
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
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
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Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.
— George J. Borjas
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
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
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
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
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 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
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar