Top 1200 Becoming A Better Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If there is another me inside of me Then I hope that he's a better person than I am

Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he didn't make some money at chess, I could see him becoming a street person, shaking his fists at cars as they passed by his corner of the block. Isn't it preferable to have him in a self-sufficient position rather than as a liability of the state?

A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe.

You better watch out You better not cry Better not pout I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

People always say that, like, you're a dog person or a cat person. I just love animals. I'm not a dog person or a cat person.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.

At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?

I believe in therapy, and I believe an objective opinion sometimes helps you be a better person.

Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

For me, as Yasmine, I do this every day. I wake up in the morning, and if I can do something to make someone feel better, I do it. I do not wait to be invited; I think that's the worst thing we can do. I make it my job to wake up every day and do one thing for one person and make them feel better.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

With Biggie, I thought his flow and his swag was better than Tupac's, but I thought Tupac's passion and ability to relate to the average person was better than Biggie, and I thought Nas was kind of like both, with a lot substance going but a lot of swag.

College allows you to make better decisions, better friends, and a better future. There's only one catch: when the opportunity comes, you actually have to take it.

No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person.

She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.

You're always going to want to beat a person that beat you, just to prove you're better.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

Your beliefs don't make you a better person. Your behavior does.

Beauty draws the seer towards the person seen; it invites them to know and have confidence in that person even without knowing the person intimately.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.

Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.

Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile. To inspire in others a desire to chance for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself.

It is hard to improve someone as a player, but is easier to help someone become a better person.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

You don't even know if the person you're communicating with online is actually that person. And your persona on your social media - your Facebook or Twitter - may not be the person you are in real life. So then, who is the real person? Is it somewhere in between?

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.

Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion and encounter - every aspect of existence. It is not possible to separate the autism from the person – and if it were possible, the person you'd have left would not be the same person you started with.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better.

You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.