My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
~ Abby Wambach
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
~ Kofi Annan
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.
~ Epictetus
The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.
~ Simon Sinek
There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.
~ Emerson Fittipaldi
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
~ Gustav Heinemann
You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
~ Tom Waits
I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.
~ Guido Van Rossum
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
~ Benazir Bhutto
Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
~ Moon Unit Zappa
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
~ James A. Baldwin
I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.
~ Chelsea Clinton
I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.
~ Terry Zwigoff
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
~ Pink
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
~ Lisa Ling
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427.
~ Carroll Shelby
Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.
~ Pliny The Elder
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
~ Amy Tan
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
~ John W. Gardner
Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
~ Donnie Yen
Our ideals are our better selves.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
~ Ll Cool J
I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.
~ Rod Stewart
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
~ Wendell Phillips
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
~ Jason Alexander
There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.
~ Rita Rudner
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.
~ Stephan Pastis
I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.
~ Andrea Seigel
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
~ Ivan Reitman
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
~ Sam Harris
You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
~ Lebron James
Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.
~ Jillian Michaels
If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round.
~ Steve Jurvetson
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is a better teacher than duty.
~ Albert Einstein
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
~ William Congreve
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
~ Caitlyn Jenner
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
~ Roy L. Smith
I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
~ John Hughes