I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
– Ken Venturi
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- All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. – Ken Kesey
- You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else. – Jim Butcher
- Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time. – Zadie Smith
- I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it! – William Faulkner
- He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
- A little thought thought over and over becomes the thought that changes everything. Always choose to believe the best about yourself. – Toni Sorenson
- I’ve always thought it nonsense to believe something true simply because it was written in a book long ago. – Ken Liu
- Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor’s kiss had been the best ever. Ever, ever, ever. – Robin Bielman
- For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won’t please everybody, but it doesn’t fall flat. – Ronald P Chavez
- Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. – Martin Luther King Jr
- For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. – Gertrude Stein
- If love wasn’t conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Be careful who you believe and how you believe who you believe. What and Who you believe influences your life powerfully – Phebe Olaniran
- To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. – JeanPaul Sartre
- See what no one else can see.Be what no one else can be.Do what no one else can do. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Now that we have that settled, I want to focus my attention on something else or should I say someone else… That someone else is you. – Brey King
- Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought. – John Green
- The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that’s the root of all sorrows. – Abhijit Naskar
- It is easy to be average. It takes no endeavor at all to be like everybody else. – Stephen Richards
- He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind – but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. – Vernor Vinge
- Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else’s. – John Oulton Wisdom
- In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison
- I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It’s a common failing. – Robert A Heinlein
- Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief. – Jonathan Odell
- How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them? – Robert Anton Wilson
- I think if you study–if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else. – Jim Henson
- I’m busy saving everybody else when I can’t even save myself – Rajesh
- It was pretty cool to have someone around here who didn’t like the same things as everybody else. – Elizabeth Eulberg
- I swear, when that woman dies, she’ll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit – Ann Everett
- Everybody else cain’t be wrong all the time. Sometimes it’s gotta be you. – Angela Flournoy
- It’s so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that’s the worst in your life, but to everybody else it’s just an ordinary night. – RJ Palacio
- He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal. – Jane Austen
- Don’t worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from? – Catherynne M Valente
- Justice it means but it’s everybody eating everyone else. That’s what life is after all. – James Joyce
- I laugh with them because it is one of the worst things to be in a room full of people and not laughting when everybody else is. – MJ Hayland
- It’s not easy to get close to anyone…. Everyone’s afraid of everybody else…. maybe because we’re all afraid of ourselves. – Ellen Hopkins