Bible quote: “The end of a matter is better than its beginning; patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.”

“He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Aids to Reflection, "Moral and Religious Aphorisms," Aphorism 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=hEbwXNWXoBoC&q=%22He+who+begins+by+loving+Christianity+better+than+truth+will+proceed+by+loving+his+own+sect+or+church+better+than+Christianity+and+end+in+loving+himself+better+than+all%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage (1873)

“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, he who rules his own spirit than he who takes a city.”

book Bible

Source: Proverbs 16:32, AMP

“It doesn't matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.”

Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player

After scoring four goals against Arsenal, 2011 http://www.taringa.net/posts/deportes/12977787/Grandes-frases-de-y-sobre-Messi.html

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.”

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890–1995) American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy

“You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 16.

“Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.”

Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician

Source: The Discovery of the Child (1948), Ch. 1

“I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

1920s, The Genius of America (1924)
Context: But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.

“It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit. Such as it is, the spirit that we have achieved is fair; and it is indestructibly woven into the tissue of the cosmos. We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.”

Olaf Stapledon book Star Maker

Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter IX: The Community of Worlds; 3. A Crisis in Galactic History (p. 117)

“The end of a matter is better than its beginning; patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.”

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