Contentious Woman

“It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.”

Live as a Lion

“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
--Benito Mussolini

Better Late

“Better late than never.”
--Titus Livius (Livy)

Die for Freedom

“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
--Bob Marley

Feared of Loved

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
--Niccolo Machiavelli

Progressive Propaganda

“The purpose of progressive propaganda is not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponds to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.”
--Theodore Dalrymple

Different from Law

“When truth and fairness are different from what is law, better it is to follow truth and fairness.”
--Viking Proverb

Better a Warrior

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Perfect Age

“The perfect age is when you are old enough to know better, young enough not to care, and wise enough to do it right.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Better New Year

“Instead of making resolutions for next year, to have a better new year actually look back at last year. Assess what went right and what went wrong and what you learned. Analyze the mistakes you could have avoided and what you can change. Then make those changes.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Of All Tyrannies

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
--C.S. Lewis

Better Yourself

“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
--William Faulkner

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Discovered Self

“Resiliency comes from a discovered self, not a constructed self. It comes from the gradual emergence of your unique, inborn abilities in a process called individuation. The better you become, the more unique you become as an individual, and it never ends.”
--Al Siebert

You Get Better

“I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better.”
--Joan Rivers

Give Thanks

“Give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
--Brian Tracy

Clutches of Old Age

“No matter how cautiously you live there is no escaping the fatal clutches of old age. So then, better to join the fray and fight proudly for something worth obtaining.”
--Viking Proverb

Bodly Decisive

“It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.”
--Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Lonely Lion

“It’s better to be a lonely lion than a popular sheep.”
--Unknown

Good Thoughts

“The more one meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be one's world and the world at large.”
--Confucius

Keep Moving Forward

“Sometimes life seems a dark tunnel with no light at the end, but if you just keep moving forward, you will end up in a better place.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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