Top 141 Better Person Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Better Person Quotes from famous people such as Jessie James Decker, Jon Batiste, Shaheer Sheikh, Roger Craig, Robin Wright, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Motherhood made me a better person.

Motherhood made me a better person.
Jessie James Decker
Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.
Jon Batiste
That’s my whole motivation in life – to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.
Shaheer Sheikh
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
Roger Craig
Sean’s a better person when he’s directing. He becomes a queen when he’s an actor. And he’s so unhappy when he’s acting.
Robin Wright
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
Barkhad Abdi
I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how ‘time heals’ and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more ‘feel the pain.’
Tove Lo
Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
Benjamin Walker
It’s not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They’ve made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.
Julianna Baggott
When I was young, living in Belgium, my parents spoke Portuguese, we have the Brazilian passion at home, I played with PSV in Holland, you experience all these different cultures and you get used to living with that. I think it has made me a better player and a better person to get out of my comfort zone.
Andreas Pereira
I don’t watch TV. I’d probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.
Bill Pullman
Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you’re really popular you’re a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.
Amy Tan
People get the wrong impression about me. They think I’m elitist or I’m conceited or whatever. But I’m a really good person. I take care of my friends and my family. I’m kindhearted. I’m a better person than a lot of people I’m surrounded by. I’ll get chewed up for saying that, but it’s true.
Trevor Bauer
It’s a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I’m a work in progress; I have revelations every day.
Rick Rubin
I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.
Kirti Kulhari
I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.
Cindy Crawford
Realistically, looks offer an advantage to an actor. I’m going to work hard to maintain my skin. I’m going to prevent aging as much as possible. And I will keep trying to become a better person on the inside as much as I spruce up the outside.
Song Joong-ki
The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you’re happy, you’re a better person.
Bai Ling
The little things I used to take for granted before I don’t take for granted anymore. This whole situation has evolved me into a better person. Mentally, I’m much stronger, I’m more loving. I’m a man now. Cancer has played a huge role into making me into this person.
Daniel Jacobs
I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible – bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.
Janine di Giovanni
I’ve done a lot of self-improvement. I’m always working on being a better person.
Joel Madden
Many kids going through tough times watch WWE on TV and tell me that they feel inspired to be strong and brave because of us. That makes me feel the need to be an even better person because I feel like I’m a role model to them, and that’s a responsibility I don’t take lightly.
Natalya Neidhart
Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.
Andy Cohen
I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I’ve always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!
Lisa Loeb
The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.
Brendan Rodgers
It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
Maureen Forrester
The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.
Marianne Williamson
I always have a slight sense of sadness when Ramadan ends. It’s such an amazing, blessed month. For me it is like a training camp for the year. You reflect on your life and things you can improve on. And it’s not about food and drink, it’s about learning to be a better person.
Moeen Ali
Through a long and painful process, I’ve learned that happiness is an inside job – not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I’ve become a different and better person – not perfect, but still a work in progress.
Alana Stewart
When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, ‘Oh I change too, I’m constantly becoming a better person.’
Jason Reitman
I’m still growing each and every day. I’m trying to become a better person, a better player and an all-time better QB.
Lamar Jackson
I feel Mehr has brought in a lot of changes in me. She

I feel Mehr has brought in a lot of changes in me. She has made me understand a lot of things and there’s a lot of gratitude towards the universe and people now. It has made me a better person and a better performer. It has made me realise the value of family and of my own parents.
Angad Bedi
One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.
S. Sreesanth
Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.
Kurt Busch
I’m self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
Tina Turner
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I’m a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
Bill Walton
I’m a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It’s led me to some great things and also some sad things. It’s made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.
Alexander Koch
I don’t think you can be in a good relationship unless you love yourself to the fullest and you want to help the other person become a better person.
Nicole Johnson
When I found out that I had a baby on the way it changed my mind and my whole way of thinking. I knew I needed to change and be a better person for my daughter.
NLE Choppa
I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to ‘Madame Butterfly’ than me?
Mirai Nagasu
I feel like there’s a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we’ve evened out. And I don’t need to even that out because if somebody’s being negative, I need to be the better person.
Nadiya Hussain
I’m very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it’s something you have to carry with you, it’s definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.
Jens Lekman
Not having my father around has made me a better person.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Dennis Prager
We’re always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
Cat Power
Mum is withdrawn and very shy. I don’t see her as a friend, like I do my dad. He’s active and bouncy. She’s maternal, nurturing, exceptionally intelligent and empathetic. I’m a better person for having had her as a mother.
Chloe Madeley
Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, I am motivated to be a better person.
Jane Clayson
I wouldn’t be the type of person to critique anybody. I’ve got to look at myself first, to be a better person.
Yoel Romero
I grew up below the poverty line; I didn’t have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
Justin Bieber
In fact, Parkinson’s has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
Michael J. Fox
I just feel like I’m becoming a better person. My music is just getting better. Learning the game better, learning how to move, learning how to create – everything’s just growing.
21 Savage
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Constantin Stanislavski
I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I’m working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on… it’s gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
Cam
You have to be confident in who you are and what you’re doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, ‘Today is the best I will ever be.’ I’m always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.
Guy Fieri
I’m on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I’m trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy – it’s brilliant.
Julia Sawalha
In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.
Marla Gibbs
I like to try to learn from my past and be a better person because of it. Better player, better teammate. Better everything.
Trevor Bauer
George Clooney is a super-human, he’s just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!
Shailene Woodley
I think the rejection – if it’s taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I’ve always striven for. If one thing didn’t work out, a project or anything, it doesn’t mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.
Kangana Ran
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Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.
Demi Moore
One of the things I said was that I had been in great hopes that I would become a better person as a result of confronting my own mortality, but it actually never happened. I didn’t become a better person.
Molly Ivins
We’re all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn’t figure that out for a long, long time.
Ryan Leaf
Change is definitely every day. It's an ever-changing w

Change is definitely every day. It’s an ever-changing world. Everything changes, so I really don’t know. I just hope I become a better person, a better man.
J.I.D
My thing has always been, I’ve never been very open and vulnerable with people, so the minute I got this dog, everything changed. It just opened me up and made me more loving… It’s all because of him… He’s made me a better person… I can tell people what I feel now. I can cry in front of people sometimes.
Lisa Lampanelli
It makes me a better person, surfing, I think. It’s a great outlet.
Luke Hemsworth
Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.
Dave Pelzer
Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
Yani Tseng
I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I’m always working on myself, and my music is the same.
Lizzo
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.
Leo Tolstoy
It’s not always about getting better on the basketball court. This game teaches you how to become a better person as well. It pushes you into the team concept.
Scottie Pippen
What I desire most in my life is to become a better person. I genuinely want to be good.
Scott Derrickson
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.
Kevin DeYoung
As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
Maggie Stiefvater
My life is not separate from my music, you know? It’s not like a day job that I leave and go home. It’s who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.
Matisyahu
I’m constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It’s completely disproportionate. I think you have to feel guilty about it. I think it makes you a better person to keep reminding yourself.
Bill Skarsgard
I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
Mahershala Ali
I’m happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who’s made me a better person.
Solange Knowles
It’s all the stuff I’ve been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.
Derrick Lewis
You can’t be crazy and wild when you’re on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.
Kay Panabaker
I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
Lake Bell
Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that’s what happiness is all about.
Gerard Malanga
I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there’s more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.
Randy Orton
When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.
Solange Knowles
I’ve hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.
Joel Kinnaman
I’m grateful that I’ve matured and that I’ve gained that wisdom to be a better person, a better actress, a better musician and a better entertainer overall.
Da Brat
I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
Howard Schultz
It’s a good feeling to know that I’m able to give my kids more and be a better person to be around.
Shaunie O’Neal
I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.
Tyson Fury
Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.
Derek Luke
I try to get better every day, and I think the hard work has helped turn me into a better person and not someone who would get a big head.
Julio Jones
It took more strength and hard work than I would’ve believed myself capable of, but with God’s grace and strength, I managed to lift myself up and become a better person that I’d ever imagined – I believe I have become a loving husband, a compassionate father, and a stronger wrestler.
Eddie Guerrero
I worked on becoming a better person and nurturing what I’ve been blessed with, improving my skills and taking care of my health and beauty.
Heart Evangelista
People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn’t. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
Jo Brand
I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn

I don’t have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.
Nicole Polizzi
I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.
Danielle Fishel
If you’re fortunate, you’ll meet people over the course of your career who exceed your expectations in every way. When you work or spend time with them, you find yourself wanting to be a better person.
Mark Goulston
I think the better actor I am, the better person I become.
Nick Gehlfuss
The camera doesn’t make you a better person, it doesn’t even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.
Chris Harrison
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.
Joseph J. Ellis
I have the best people around me. None of them have ever been on the radio. They’re all such great people, and I found that I was able to be a better person when I was doing the radio show. It kept me from being a radio person.
Bobby Bones
Everyone knows Pep Guardiola is a great professional, but getting to know him, I have realised he is an even better person.
Gabriel Jesus
I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren’t intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.
Vanessa Hudgens
If I get to the end of my life, if I die, and I find out religion is one big lie, I still won’t regret it because it’s helped me to live a better life, to be a better person, to care about people, to believe in forgiveness, to believe in hope.
Elizabeth Smart
I’m sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn’t make you a better person.
Molly Ivins
I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
Tanya Tucker
I am and always will be a sinner. But that’s the beautiful thing about Jesus. I’ll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I’m not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I’m holier than thou, ’cause I’m not!
Billy Ray Cyrus
I want my lasting legacy to be that I was a good wrestler but a better person. I want people to remember me as a good dude. I think that’s very important.
Johnny Gargano
I’m working to be a better person.
Aroldis Chapman
I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.
Art Malik
I make mistakes, but each and every day you want to try to better yourself to be a better person and learn from your mistakes.
O. J. Mayo
I feel like I’m a better person without the game of football. I’m happier.
Martellus Bennett
I’m happier and a better person when I work out, especially if I work out outdoors.
Amy Jo Martin
Success isn’t about reaching your goals; it’s about striving for things, like the joy of trying to raise a family, trying to be a successful singer, trying to write good songs, trying to be a better person. It’s that old thing about life being about the journey, not the destination.
Jimmy Barnes
I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.
Diane Kruger
Jail just made me wiser. It made me smarter. It made me wake up to a lot of stuff. And also it made me a better businessman. I had to learn the music business. It just made me a better person as far as the way I live.
Boosie
Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You’ll be a better person.
Sandra Bullock
I know I haven’t always done things the right way. I’m just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
Future
Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective – with a sense of wonderment.
Juhi Chawla
My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it’s a good religion.
Kirk Douglas
I couldn’t tell you what was my last performance before I was incarcerated. I couldn’t tell you what last meal I had, or anything of those things because I didn’t think about it; it wasn’t important to me. I think about it now. I can tell you everything I ate for the past week. I think that alone makes me a better person.
Remy Ma
Every day I’m getting out of bed and trying to become a better player, a better person.
Michael Clarke
‘Man In The Mirror’ by Michael Jackson – I used to have my very first dance parties with my kids to this song when they were little, even carried them around to it. It just makes you want to be a better person and be inspired.
Summer Sanders
If you’re going to become a better person, do it in high school.
Camila Mendes
I feel like I’m a much better person when I’m developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I’m just working on my analytical mind.
Brit Marling
There's a common misconception about running for office

There’s a common misconception about running for office. People think it’s dreadful, morally compromising work. But I’ve found the opposite is true. It made a better person and a better feminist. It forced me to take a hard look at my shortcomings.
Brianna Wu
The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.
Linda Ronstadt
If I was in a situation where it wasn’t working and I had a choice with another man, I’m gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?
Patti Stanger
Obviously you try to learn from the past and your mistakes and how you can become a better player as well as a better person.
Donovan McNabb
Having red hair is never good when you’re a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn’t have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I remember reading Dostoevsky’s ‘The Idiot’ in my grandmother’s Moscow apartment and feeling this call to be a better person.
Keith Gessen
Looking in a mirror and telling yourself to feel better doesn’t work when you’re a girl, but finding something that you love to do, something that makes you a better person like volunteering to help others, will definitely make a difference.
Su-chin Pak
It is hard to improve someone as a player, but is easier to help someone become a better person.
Dani Alves
I feel the happiest when I’m at the golf course. And I feel calm when I’m on the golf course. I think I’m just a much better person when I’m on the golf course.
Inbee Park
You shouldn’t just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.
Sue Wicks
My daughter was born when I was nowhere near where I am now, and she took me to another level. I said, ‘I have to become a better person in this life if I want to serve as an example. If I want to set a positive example for her, I need to get better myself.’
IronE Singleton
I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.
Judy Greer
Yoga probably makes me a better person.
Jennifer Morrison
I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I’m left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.
Melanie Griffith
I’ve always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.
Julianne Hough
People leave United and tend to drift out of the game. I actually think I became a better player and a better person. I proved a lot of doubters wrong.
Phil Neville
There is no place on or off the court for language that disrespects anyone’s sexual orientation. That is not who I am or what I believe, and I will strive every day to be a better person.
Rajon Rondo