Top 646 Better Quotes

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
Lincoln Chafee
At the end of the day, you want a straightforward, simple system which everyone understands. If you can get clarity and simplicity in any process, it’s better for everybody.
Steve Clarke
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
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner
I think my riding has hopefully gotten a lot better, but I’m always trying to push myself.
Chloe Kim
Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.
Lewis Hamilton
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
Jim Carrey
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau
Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.
Nadia Comaneci
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
Gabe Newell
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
Tom Cruise
The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That’s the management style or leadership style I believe in, which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.
Lisa Su
I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I’ve chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better.
Bindi Irwin
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
You don’t get older, you get better.
Shirley Bassey
I’m just getting older and better.
Neal Schon
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett
Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.
Andrea Bocelli
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
Sasha Grey
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Sydney J. Harris
You want to keep getting better every day.
Steve Smith
I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can’t imagine having a better life.
Barbara McClintock
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
Philip Zimbardo
Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
H. P. Lovecraft
Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Ron Paul
When you play against people that’s better than you, you get better.
Draymond Green
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray Bradbury
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don’t have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
Hans Rosling
I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.
Tom Hanks
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Jacques Barzun
Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world.
George Monbiot
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don’t. In fact I’m not a supporter of the ‘ancient alien’ hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.
Graham Hancock
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
My life is better with every year of living it.
Rachel Maddow
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Jimmy Carter
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
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco Chanel
When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I’m better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves – the misfits.
Chris Pine
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
Charles Erwin Wilson
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
LeBron James
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
Daniel H. Pink
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.
Mark Shields
I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.
Mitch Hedberg
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
Antonio Brown
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
The harder you try, the better the impression you set on the people around you.
Tom Holland
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
Bill Nye
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
Yolanda Adams
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will b

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.
Daniel Kahneman
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
Pink
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Bernard Meltzer
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Chief Seattle
As a person, I’m just trying to be better than I was yesterday and continue to elevate.
Gabriella Wilson
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
Thomas Hughes
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob Marley
The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.
Misty May-Treanor
I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
George H. W. Bush
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Herodotus
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford
Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
Tom Rath