Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything – for better or for worse.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and 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.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Usually, one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.
You feel better when you’re eating food that retains nutritional value.
The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.
If everyone were a good person, it’d obviously be a better world.
Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
My job as a surgeon is not just to fix a joint, but to give my patients the encouragement and tools they need to speed up their recovery and leave my clinic better than they have been in years.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.
Remember, it’s better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.
I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it’s a good problem.
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
I don’t have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I’m as good as anybody, but no better.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they’re doing.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
I don’t have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.
I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing now seems to have become better known.
At the end of the day it’s better to be an unpleasant winner than a nice loser.
Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don’t just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It’s a daily struggle.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
It’s better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Before I leave this earth, I’m going to help people have a better future.
You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She’s thicker.
It’s a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
I’m interested in that thing that happens where there’s a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better, and that’s the point when people quit. But some don’t.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.
Life throws you curveballs and there are things that happen – you don’t understand why they happened at the time. But then you step back and understand you’re a better fighter and competitor because of the things that happened.
I feel that it is a social responsibility for us who are better educated to give back some to the society in whatever service we can help.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it’s through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.
Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it’s what she fights for that is important. It’s her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
You’re always better off if you quit smoking; it’s never too late.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.’
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they’re in, know that they can make do and have a better life.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
