Better
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Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better — because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
A trap in dealing with difficult people is getting wrapped up in their personality. When we can stay objective and remove ourselves from other people's roller-coaster psychology, we have a much better chance of moving through the situation positively.
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