Top 646 Better Quotes

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we’ll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

The older I get the better I used to be!

Every day, I wanna work on being a better person, not just to others but to myself.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it’s bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there’s always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

You can’t candy-coat an unsweetened world. But you can get together and make it a better place to live.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I’ll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

It gets better: there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it’ll come back.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Do what you say you’re going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

I like me better naked. I don’t mean that in a vain way… When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don’t have any clothes on, it’s just you, raw, and you can’t hide.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

The more experience you got the more things you are able to go through, and the ups and downs through a season that you had I don’t think it can do anything but make you that much better.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

Sometimes it’s important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.

Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better.

It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

It’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I’m on to another thought. And what comes out wasn’t what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I’m going to get better that day.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They’re the ones who constantly ask, ‘What if?’ and ‘Why not?’ They’re not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don’t disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.

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

‘Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Nobody really knows what they’re doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.