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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Fool, Doubt, Thought

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Experiment

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi

Thought, Else, Everybody

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher

Down, Top, View

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln

Power, Hope, Government

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

Leadership, Nice, Others

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

Yourself, Win, Cannot

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Fool, Doubt, Thought

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

Alone, Friend, Dark

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Daily, Words

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure, Live, Win

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett

Good, Truth, Lie

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Work, Job

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn Monroe

Alone, Someone, Far

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

Life, Patience, Happy

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Nature, Deep, Everything

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

Game, Play, Else

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

Husband, Wife, Same

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

Peace, Words, Word

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi

Trouble, Worse, Avoid

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Made, Creative, Almost

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

Love, Teacher, Duty

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve Jobs

Great, Heart, Find

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X

Time, Adversity, Defeat

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Fool, Doubt, Keep

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

Positive, Thinking, Everything

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi

Put, Violence, Hearts

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Three, Late, Soon

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