Better Mindsets Quotes

The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone? ~ Graham Greene

I can understand the teachers saying it's a gun at my head, but they've got the same gun at the parents' head at the moment. The parent goes up to the teacher and says, well, I'm not satisfied with what you're doing, and the teacher can say, well tough. You can't take him away, you can't move him, you can't do what you like, so go away and stop bothering me. That can be the attitude of some teachers today, and often is. But now that the positions are being reversed [with vouchers] and the roles are changed, I can only say tough on the teachers. Let them pull their socks up and give us a better deal and let us participate more. ~ Milton Friedman

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;
book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right ~ Mark Twain

Everyone at school has their little group. Even the people nobody likes seem to tolerate each other enough to sit together at lunch. But I just sort of wander around by myself most of the time. It's almost be better if I thought no one liked me, if I had some weird tick or social inadequacy that cold easily explain my alienation but it's not that easy. People talk to me at school and invite me to parties, but something's missing on the smaller scale. I don't belong to anybody. I don't have anyone who is mine. ~ Amy Reed

It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government. ~ Marco Rubio

For ever tear dropped, a new seed within you is planted, from which a garden predicting better days will surely emerge. ~ Daniel Marques

We are all connected directly or indirectly.
We are all related closely or distantly.
We are all the offspring of the same family.
Better an individual and you better society. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better ... ~ Chris Bohjalian

We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero could be and what the hero's journey as a human being is all about. But unfortunately, I think sometimes those stories too can be very prohibitive and confining. ~ Chris Pine

In the darkness time, let your passion and spirit lead you to make a better decision. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's simple, Miss Philpot. This is one of God's early models, and He decided to give the subsequent ones smaller eyes." I raised my eyebrows. "Do you mean God rejected it?" "I mean God wanted a better version - the crocodile we know now - and replaced it. ~ Tracy Chevalier

Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it. ~ Kristin Hannah

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly. ~ Louis Zamperini

I'm sure you could distract me with something better than hand holding, sugar." He winked, then winced and sucked in a breath. "Holy f-f-f-f-fire truck. I think you just stitched my kidney. ~ Eden Summers

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal. ~ Sebastian Coe

God, I was just six years older than you are now. That's terrifying." She raised her shoulder, nudging my head. "Please don't make me a grandmother in six years, okay?"
I scoffed. "Trust me, after the Boy Issues I've had, I'm becoming a nun."
"Well, that's good to know."
We stayed there, dangling our feet over the creek, talking, until the sun was high overhead. By the time we made our way back to the compound, I was feeling a little better. Sure, my life was still intensely screwed up, but at least I had some answers. ~ Rachel Hawkins

Better for the judge to see my innocence than for me to think I see it. It is very comfortable for me to know that I am one of God's people - but whether I know it or not, if the Lord knows it, ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I know I'm only 21 and what do I know about life and love and what really matters? But my promise to myself while writing this book was to tell my story, no one else's. To write the story of my life so that I can remember it in the way I want to remember it. To write this down in an attempt to make it better, to make my story come alive. ~ Charlotte Eriksson

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction ~ David Mitchell

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go? ~ Aidan Chambers

It'd be better if he were easier to hate. ~ Suzanne Collins

Your mother has the mind of a genius and the eyes of a child. You won't find better than that. ~ Jessica Khoury

He wouldn't try to make her feel better about something if it meant telling her a lie. ~ Luanne Rice

Be you or be better. ~ Anonymous

It is better for a soul to write the wonders of time while there is still breath. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She fought the urge to take a closer look at his ruggedly handsome features, but failed. How could he have gotten better looking after being abused by every bronc-busting horse on the rodeo circuit? His angular jaw, strong and determined, was shaded with beard growth that was probably a day old, maybe more. Mandy suspected if Beau grew a full beard, it would grow in thick and be the smooth texture of his almost black head of hair. She forced aside past memories that gave her such knowledge with renewed irritation. ~ Lisa Mondello

Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes. ~ Charlie LeDuff