Better do a good deed near at home
by Amelia Earhart
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
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Sayings by Amelia Earhart
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart 
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Amelia Earhart
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
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I want to do it because I want to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
There are two kinds of stones,
as everyone knows,
one of which rolls.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
Better Sayings
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
The world is a better place because I am here.
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Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
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Better late than never.
- Proverb
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
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It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
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Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
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