Quotes About Trying To Be A Better Man

#1. Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Allen Klein

#2. We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

James Lovelock

#3. But that was too simple: the idea of a man split into two by a dividing axe. Better: a man crushed into a hundred pieces of rubble, vainly trying to remember how they - he - had once fitted together. -

Julian Barnes

#4. Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

Mike Shinoda

#5. You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Napoleon Hill

#6. Despite Soviet 'defeat' in 1991, the ideas associated with Communism remain shockingly reputable throughout what we still know as the Free World.

Diana West

#7. It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.

Sean Malto

#8. I was trying to be a better man, Perry. For you." I shifted in my seat. "Dex ... " "And I'll keep trying," he quickly said, voice low and somber. "Until I get it right.

Karina Halle

#9. When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works.
And the hundredth boy?
We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one.

Mary Doria Russell

#10. I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading
anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it
kept the heart alive.

Charles Bukowski

#11. Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art.

Audre Lorde

#12. Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Charles Lamb

#13. I said, "What's your goal in life?" and winced at how corny and earnest I sounded.
He looked away. He thought. "I guess I'm trying to become a better man than the one I'm hardwired to be.

Melissa Bank

#14. Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. I'm trying to be a better man, Liz. Are you watching?

Sophia Rose

#16. I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.

L. Ron Hubbard

#17. I'm going to hell, Livia," he said.
"I'm going to hell for all three of us," Beckett said defiantly. Only now did he pull his hand away.
"I think you might be a better man than you give yourself credit for," Livia said, trying to catch his eye again.

Debra Anastasia

#18. My future's about trying to be a better man.

Terrence Howard

#19. Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nayvadius Cash

#21. Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

River Phoenix

#22. Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive

Cat Stevens

#23. I feel sorry for high school teams still named the Cougars. Now what does the coach say? Get out there and play like horny old ladies!

Dana Gould