And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith than George the Third.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career or your life.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and thus his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

You must not demand the failure of your peers because the more good things that are around in film in television in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all but Charlotte's way better.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished then it's a failure.

In high school in sport I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time try to fail better.

Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek ' which is a show that was for better or for worse all about the language. It was a word-perfect show which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time it wasn't my favorite working experience.

You may count on Mexico's support since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us together to achieve a better world.

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.