135 Better Quotes

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Famous Better Quotes

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — Maya Angelou

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. — Plutarch

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month. — Lewis Grizzard

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. — Ken Venturi

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. — Marilyn Monroe

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. - Mark Twain

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. — Mark Twain

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap. — Ida B. Wells

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work. — Jim Harbaugh

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. — Dr. Seuss

Your life will become better by making other lives better. It is not about you. - Will Smith

Your life will become better by making other lives better. It is not about you. — Will Smith

Short Better Quotes

  • Leave this world a little better than you found it. — Robert Baden-Powell
  • A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. — Andre Gide
  • The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
  • Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. — Charlemagne
  • The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. — John Burroughs
  • Learn from yesterday, live for today. — Albert Einstein
  • When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness. — Malcolm X
  • Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. — Jim Rohn
  • Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. — Woody Allen

Better Image Quotes

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. - Plutarch quote

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. — Plutarch

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. - American Indian Proverbs quote

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. — American Indian Proverbs

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett quote

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett

There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher. - Usain Bolt quote

There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher. — Usain Bolt

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. - Elizabeth Kenny quote

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. — Elizabeth Kenny

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverbs quote

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. — Chinese Proverbs

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller quote

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. — Helen Keller

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. - Vladimir Putin quote

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. — Vladimir Putin

Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. - Proverbs quote

Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. — Proverbs

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson quote

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. - Blaise Pascal quote

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. — Blaise Pascal

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Confucius quote

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. — Confucius

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. - Plautus quote

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. — Plautus

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. - William Shakespeare quote

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. — William Shakespeare

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. - Victor Hugo quote

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. — Victor Hugo

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. - Niccolo Machiavelli quote

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. — Niccolo Machiavelli

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville quote

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. — Herman Melville

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. - Chinese Proverbs quote

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. — Chinese Proverbs

I'm straight edge, and that means I'm better than you. - CM Punk quote

I'm straight edge, and that means I'm better than you. — CM Punk

Love is so much better when you're not married. - Maria Callas quote

Love is so much better when you're not married. — Maria Callas

Better quote Silence is better than bullshit.
Silence is better than bullshit.

Life Only Gets Better Quotes

Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt. — Staceyann Chin

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important. — Benjamin Bratt

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started. — Guy Finley

Better quote A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.

One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of life we habitually carry around with us. But if we want to, there is a practical way to look at that picture and change it. Here is the way of the Treasure Map. — Lisa Hoffman

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you. — Bipasha Basu

That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be. — Maria Semple

Better quote It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through t
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better. — Drew Barrymore

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late. — Jonathan Carroll

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day. — Brian Tracy

So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better. — Sayings

Life Just Gets Better Quotes

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it. — Ted Williams

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

Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths. — Donald O. Clifton

Better quote No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your
No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.

Pause and remember - Everyone gets discouraged and feels lost at times. Don't worry - life will get better. A new way is being made for you. Keep moving forward even if it's just baby steps. — Jennifer Young

I didn't feel good today- little things here and there- but that's the nature of this game. You just keep pushing, being mentally and physically ready. Some days are better than others, but even if you don't feel so good, you get yourself going. — Mike Matheny

The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service. — Kathy Calvin

Better quote Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not w
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started. — Bill Gates

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear. — Zora Neale Hurston

My memory bank has overflowed out of control forever. I'm surprised my smile hasn't killed me yet. I have lived an indescribable joyful, adventurous, musical dream life and it just gets better every year. — Ted Nugent

I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother. — Teena Marie

Life Always Gets Better Quotes

Life is beautiful. Cherish every moment even if you're stressed or hurt or whatnot. There's always tomorrow and it always gets better — Ariana Grande

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing - A. A. Milne

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing — A. A. Milne

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart. — Gloria Grahame

Better quote It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever. — Ernest Hemingway

I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle. — Oprah Winfrey

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad. — Bruce Springsteen

Better quote Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

And things are never okay. It does get better I guess, in that you grow to love yourself if you're lucky. But it doesn't get better because life is hard, and people aren't always nice. — Justin Vivian Bond

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it. — Janis Ian

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life. — Baruch Spinoza

Attitude is the most important word in any language. Your attitude controls every aspect of your life. Attitude should definitely be taught in all schools and every business course... Remember you don't have to be sick to get better. Your attitude can always be improved. — Bob Proctor

Life Never Gets Better Quotes

Life never gets easier, no matter how long you live. All you can do is get better at it. — David Sinclair

No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Better quote If you want something, you better make some noise.
If you want something, you better make some noise.

Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn't mean it's easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now. — Pia Toscano

Getting pregnant and caring for a baby gave me a confidence I'd never had before. I really felt I'd done something well, and I can't say that about anything else in my life. I've never watched a movie I've appeared in and thought, wow, I was great. I always think, oh, I could have done this better. — Liv Tyler

Better quote The mission of your life should be to leave a better world behind than what you inherited.
The mission of your life should be to leave a better world behind than what you inherited.

You're never too good to get better... take that and apply that to everything in your life. — Benson Henderson

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better. — Paul Gascoigne

The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment. — Morgan Freeman

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance. — Suzanne Collins

Summer Quotes

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you. — Langston Hughes

Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why such pleasure comes from one small bud on a long spindly stem, one blood red gold flower opening at mid-summer, tiny, perfect in its hour. — Sam Hamill

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! - Kenny Chesney

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney

Better quote Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me. — Nizar Qabbani

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies. — Toni Morrison

But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference. — Saadat Hasan Manto

Better quote If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.
If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. — William Shakespeare

Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. — William Shakespeare

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. — Albert Camus

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. — Albert Camus

It Gets Better Quotes

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. — Sojourner Truth

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away. — LL Cool J

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying. — Sarah Dessen

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

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. — Zora Neale Hurston

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does! — Saul Bass

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss

Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better. — Vic Fuentes

Be authentic to escape competition, find what you know how to do better than anybody because you love to do it and it feels like play, and get to retirement. — Naval Ravikant

Things Are Getting Better Quotes

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? - Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi

The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better. — Russell L. Ackoff

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. — Maya Angelou

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway. — Nancy Gibbs

Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better. — Jesse Ventura

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better. — Robert Doisneau

When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming. — Bob Proctor

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. — Robert Redford

The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike… is to stop thinking about ‘there are a bunch of reasons I might fall off’ and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way. — Dick Costolo

It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight than to die. The very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already screwed. — Rory Miller

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More Better Quotes

Silence is better than unmeaning words. - Pythagoras quote

Silence is better than unmeaning words. — Pythagoras

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. - Edna Ferber quote

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. — Edna Ferber

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. - Peter Marshall quote

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. — Peter Marshall

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse. - Proverbs quote

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse. — Proverbs

Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you've ever had. - Serena Williams quote

Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you've ever had. — Serena Williams

To change and change for the better are two different things - Proverbs quote

To change and change for the better are two different things — Proverbs

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt quote

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. - Annie Besant quote

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. — Annie Besant

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. - Buddha quote

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. — Buddha

Wisdom is using the mistakes from the past to create a better future. - Tim Fargo quote

Wisdom is using the mistakes from the past to create a better future. — Tim Fargo

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better. - Tariq Ramadan quote

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better. — Tariq Ramadan

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood. - Daniel Berrigan quote

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood. — Daniel Berrigan

The only thing better than singing is more singing. - Ella Fitzgerald quote

The only thing better than singing is more singing. — Ella Fitzgerald

Good is not good, when better is expected. - Thomas Fuller quote

Good is not good, when better is expected. — Thomas Fuller

When you know better you do better. - Maya Angelou quote

When you know better you do better. — Maya Angelou

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep - Benito Mussolini quote

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep — Benito Mussolini

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. - Chinese Proverbs quote

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. — Chinese Proverbs

Better the devil you know than the angel you don't. - Hama Tuma quote

Better the devil you know than the angel you don't. — Hama Tuma

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein quote

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

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