Top 580 Better Quotes

In this post, you will find great Better Quotes from famous people, such as Nelson Mandela, Thich Nhat Hanh, Erma Bombeck, Alice Walker, Oscar Wilde. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in f

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
There’s a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
Dean Martin
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
William J. H. Boetcker
Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it’s off the better.
Horatio Nelson
My thing is you’re only as good as the people you work with. I’ve been blessed to work with the Wayanses and Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, and it makes you better.
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.
Alice Miller
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I’m a very positive person.
It’s better to play football with a smile on your face.
One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
I always think today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow is better than today.
Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Mwai Kibaki
I think I’m like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
You can never satisfy other people, I learned. End of the day, it’s extremely important that you know yourself better than anybody else, and if you can do that, it doesn’t matter what anybody thinks about you, good or bad.
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.
David Binder
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
It’s a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn’t think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
I don’t know what’s better gettin’ laid or gettin’ paid.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne
Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don’t just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It’s a daily struggle.
Jackee Harry
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Horace Walpole
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don’t. In fact I’m not a supporter of the ‘ancient alienhypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.
Graham Hancock
It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.
I have amazing people around me. I couldn’t be in a better place. I’m grateful for my life and where I’m at. I never thought I could be in the position that I’m in.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it’s always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.
The more knowledge you’ve got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
Tony Orlando
There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
Julius Caesar
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.
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were t

Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were to spread positive energy on the Internet, the world would be a much better place.
Lu Wei
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It’s better than art because it’s from the creator.
Always dress like you’re going somewhere better.
My serve can get better, for sure. It’s not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.
Thomas Dekker
We’re only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren’t enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
William P. Leahy
It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it.
Mine is better than ours.
I believe that it’s better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She’s thicker.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Joanna Baillie
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
There's no better feeling than just going in and just w

There’s no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.
Sometimes life’s so much cooler when you just don’t know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
I absolutely adore cows. They’re the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.
I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.
Sophie Tucker
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can’t worry about it too much.
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.
The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
You get better at working by working. And if you don’t work, you’re not getting better.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.
I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
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
You don’t need a group of superstars, you need a team working together to bring you better results.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
As a person, I’m just trying to be better than I was yesterday and continue to elevate.
I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can’t imagine having a better life.
Barbara McClintock
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say fro

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives – some for better, some for worse.
Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.
They say stay in the lines, but there’s always something better on the other side.
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
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.
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
William Pollard
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get 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.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Dwight L. Moody
Every day, I wanna work on being a better person, not just to others but to myself.
There’s nothing better than a cold beer.
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
No, I’m not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there’s been a lot of proof that’s come up over the last however many years, that you can’t deny, I don’t think, that meat or dairy aren’t all that good for us.
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.
I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
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
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
Roberto Clemente
One who never turned his back but marched breast forwar

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don’t wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
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.
There’s a way to do it better – find it.
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.
Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it’s a magnificent profession.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.
John Walters
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
What’s happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That’s why we’re here.
Ian Botham
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
My life is better with every year of living it.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
Brigham Young
Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.
Brian McBride
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John Milton
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Some entrepreneur needs to make a better bike seat.
Doug Ford
Life wasn’t easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.
Joe Louis
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
I don’t have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I’m as good as anybody, but no better.
Katherine Johnson
As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.
It's better to be a dictator than gay.

It’s better to be a dictator than gay.
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Bernard Meltzer
I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.
Better is the enemy of good.
You’re always better off if you quit smoking; it’s never too late.
When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody‘s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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.
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn’t much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
Lead by example. Be better than those you despise.
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.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. Northcote Parkinson
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He’s always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn’t always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I’m actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
If you’re a true warrior, competition doesn’t scare you. It makes you better.
We all do better when we all do better.
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.
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
Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.
Francois Mauriac
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
I’m not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that’s a buzz kill. There’s got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.
Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Takeshi Kitano
Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful – it’s sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life – one with more oxygen.
I don’t think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.
I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
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.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Try harder to be better and the universe will work towards giving you more happiness.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.
We learn from each other. We learn from others’ mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
Yao Ming
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.
Eugene V. Debs
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just b

Nobody really knows what they’re doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Eric Sevareid
We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it’s through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
When you’re able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.
Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
I feel like it’s actually everybody’s responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you’re an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it’s everybody’s responsibility.
I’m not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.
I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
It is our job to make a difference and leave the world a better place.
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.
Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.
Joel Burns
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get be

At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that’s always my focus.
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place – police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there’s nothing exactly like it.
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
All over the world, independent and strong civil society – NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates – help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most – like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
Karl G. Maeser
Dreams don’t have deadlines. I’m thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
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.
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
Fridtjof Nansen
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
Frederick W. Smith
When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.
The battle of getting better is never ending.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Jack Layton
When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn’t do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.
Paul A. Volcker
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin’ chickens.
Grandma Moses
Human relationships can get awfully demanding and unpredictable. One day you feel one way, the next day you feel something else. That affects relationships. It’s better to spend time with yourself doing the things that you enjoy.
It doesn’t matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There’s something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy tha

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
John Heisman
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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.
G. Gordon Liddy
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure.
Don’t believe your own publicity. You can’t; you’ll start thinking that you’re better than you are.
Leif Garrett
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.
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.
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Samuel Gompers
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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.
Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.
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
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Roy L. Smith
Less make-up is better, and it’s always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
I’m interested in that thing that happens where there’s a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better, and that’s the point when people quit. But some don’t.
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself w

Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.
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.
If I see a problem, I like to think if there’s a better way to do it.
Mark Rober
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.
Mark Shields
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Sorry, I don’t eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle.
Keegan Allen
I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.
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.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Never walk into a hospital crying. Have an attitude that you will make someone else’s life better.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.
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.
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.
I’ll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
The older I get the better I used to be!
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.
I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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.
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Clara Barton
Habit allows us to go from ‘before’ to ‘after,’ to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious – and rightly so – for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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.
It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‘Can any of us imagine better,’ but, ‘Can we all do better?’
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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.
There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.
If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
Nothing’s better than a picnic.
Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process. Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better.
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become 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.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the s

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.
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.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Someone who just has a really good heart – it’s so attractive: someone who makes you feel beautiful and encourages you – makes you better.
Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.
The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.
We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don’t get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.
‘A living dog is better than a dead lion.’ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Better late than never.
Matthew Henry
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
The harder you try, the better the impression you set on the people around you.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
When you play against people that’s better than you, you get better.
I’m so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
My supplements are similar to my training – I always commit to being a better version of myself.
When I see out-of-shape, overweight people huffing and puffing in the gym, my eyes well up with tears of pride. I want to walk over to them, hug them, and say, ‘Good on you for getting in here. It gets better!’ You know why? Because they’re challenging themselves.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus
Every day I’m getting shaped and molded. Keepin’ on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I’m in it, the more I’m practicing and the more I’m advancing.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
If you spend time with your loved ones, you get the energy to do your job better.
I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing now seems to have become better known.
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. ‘Lord, send me!’
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
My job as a surgeon is not just to fix a joint, but to give my patients the encouragement and tools they need to speed up their recovery and leave my clinic better than they have been in years.
Kevin R. Stone
I’m just getting older and better.
Neal Schon
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Heraclitus
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
I believe that rejection is a blessing because it’s the universe’s way of telling you that there’s something better out there.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
It’s always, ‘No matter what the outing is, you can always find a way to be a better pitcher.’ No matter what you do.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
Phaedrus
Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.
There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.
I actually think I think better in high heels.
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
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.
The world gets better every day – then worse again in the evening.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
It’s sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.
At Uber, we say, ‘Always be hustling.’ Even if you are an introvert and you haven’t got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven’t got enough hustle to find a co-founder who’s got hustle, it’s going to be tough. You’ve got to have a little hustle in you.
The future will be better tomorrow.
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.
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
I’m just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
Lincoln Chafee
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
It’s a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
Dale Earnhardt
Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world,

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it’s wonderful that she didn’t cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
Jennifer Armentrout
If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps
It’s better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
The world is getting better, but not in a straight line.
Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
Benito Mussolini
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
More is not better. Better is better. You don’t need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don’t need more stuff; you need stuff you’ll actually use.
Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I’m still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or ‘chosen’ or feel they have an entitlement… be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.
I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
It’s always better to leave the party early.
Sometimes when you’re drunk you can see better.
Collaboration is important not just because it’s a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
Don Tapscott
I know I am no better than anyone else in this world.
Frankie Muniz
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.
The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
There couldn’t be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
Ricardo Montalban
I’m humble ’cause I think many years ago people say, ‘Well, Alibaba’s terrible company’. And I know we were not that terrible. We’re pretty good; we’re better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.
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.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what’s in the dark will come to light, so it’s better to be truthful about it.
Future
You’d better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain’t so.
There’s nothing better than working up a good sweat.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
I want the world to be better because I was here.
I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they’re in, know that they can make do and have a better life.
Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
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.
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we’ll be.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
William Lyon Phelps
There is nothing that Bitcoin can do which Ethereum can’t. While Ethereum is less battle-tested, it is moving faster, has better leadership, and has more developer mindshare.
The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.
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.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.
Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.
I don’t think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
Life throws you curveballs and there are things that happen – you don’t understand why they happened at the time. But then you step back and understand you’re a better fighter and competitor because of the things that happened.
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
I enjoy life this way, I enjoy life being in solidarity with the people who are fighting for a better world.
Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.
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.
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be fi

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
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.
Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything – for better or for worse.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
What is a master but a master student? And if that’s true, then there’s a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
Claudius
I’ve always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there’s bound to be a report that comes out that says, ‘Broccoli actually… ‘ So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.
You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome – just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
If everyone were a good person, it’d obviously be a better world.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Changing someone else’s life positively changes yours for the better as well.
The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.