Better Selves Quotes

#1. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Do not regret too much the choices you have made in the past, Gabriel," she said, aware that she was using his Christian name, but not able to help it. "Only make the right ones in the future. We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves.

Cassandra Clare

#3. When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

Francis Bacon

#4. Do not regret too much of the choices you have made in the past, only make the right ones in the future. We are ever capable of change and ever cable of being our better selves.

Cassandra Clare

#5. I like to smile at the men who look mean so they know I believe in their better selves. That makes a difference in the world. This is how you might be able to reform a possible rapist without ever going to psychology school.

Aimee Bender

#6. All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

James Lecesne

#7. Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.

George Miller

#8. Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

James MacGregor Burns

#9. People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

Terry McMillan

#10. A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#11. Most people like praise ... When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

Joseph P. Farrell

#12. We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.

Joshua Ferris

#13. When from our better selves we have too long
Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop,
Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,
How gracious, how benign, is Solitude

William Wordsworth

#14. Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#15. Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.

Martin O'Malley

#16. To stir the masses, to appeal to their higher, better selves, to set them thinking for themselves, and to hold ever before them the ideal of mutual kindness and good will, based upon mutual interests, is to render real service to the cause of humanity.

Eugene V. Debs

#17. I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

Maya Angelou

#18. The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.

Paulo Freire

#19. We know better than to compare ourselves with others online. We know a Facebook feed, for most, is a glorified highlights reel, a round-up of our best moments, our funniest selves, our greatest champions. We know not to compare our worst with someone else's best. But

Erin Loechner

#20. If theirs was a goal of arriving at versions of themselves that they deemed better - perhaps more valuable - than their current selves, then who could blame them? And yet, they were in fact to be blamed.

Chinelo Okparanta

#21. So everybody who talks about homosexuals as a damnation better look in a mirror and try to heal their own selves. Who they call homosexuals do, at least, act out of their love. That's better than the hate a whole lot of people act out of.

J. California Cooper

#22. More than ever before in our nation's history, females are encouraged to assume the patriarchal mask and bury their emotional selves as deeply as their male counterparts do. Females embrace this paradigm because they feel it is better to be a dominator than to be dominated.

Bell Hooks

#23. There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.

Linda Grant

#24. In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

Joanna Scott

#25. We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

Cassandra Clare

#26. They'll go to jail' said the Captain. 'And they'll stay there until Christmas. Then, if they promise to give up piracy and take an honest job somewhere, they may be allowed to go free.

Alexander McCall Smith

#27. Loyalty - deep, intense, devoted loyalty - to a leader or a culture, to any group, brand or idea, goes far beyond being engaged or having our needs met. We see our emotional selves in that connection. We see our future, our best selves and our better angels in that connection.

Bill Jensen

#28. We are better than our culture. Load us down with prejudice, equip us with indifference, and we will nevertheless, at the critical moment, cast the nonsense aside and find our true selves.

Jack McDevitt

#29. We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

Reshma Saujani

#30. I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.

Dan Pearce

#31. I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

Marianne Williamson