Be Better Person Quotes

#1. I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be friends with that person, because you kind of grew up with that person and they know you better than anyone, and how it's just impossible to make that transition seamlessly.

Rashida Jones

#2. I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#3. The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

John Wayne

#4. I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.

Drew Barrymore

#5. I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

Damon Albarn

#6. Endurance is not a young person's game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that's almost as strong, but you have a much better mind.

Diana Nyad

#7. I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Gordon Bell

#8. And I'm sorry I ruined everything we had before I could admit it to you. Before I could admit it to myself. You didn't make me a better person, because no one can do that. You made me want to be a better person.

Nicole Williams

#9. They tell you you'll forget how it used to be. You'll get used to it, that it's better to move on. They don't realize you can't. You're not the same person anymore.

Amanda Sun

#10. If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart ...

Pema Chodron

#11. For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us into the person we wish to be, or the person we think we are. In some ways the dynamic is simple: alcohol makes everything better, until it makes everything worse.

Caroline Knapp

#12. Aspire to be a better person today than you were yesterday and you will be heading in the right direction.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#13. I am not and never will be perfect. I am not always as honest, respectful, responsible, fair or as kind as I should be. All I can do is what I should do: strive every day, with every decision to be the best person I can be. I don't expect to be perfect but I know I can be better.

Michael Josephson

#14. It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Matt Damon

#15. As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

Baba Hari Dass

#16. That's the risk in working to be a dangerous person," she said. "There's always the chance you'll run into someone who's better at it than you.

Scott Hawkins

#17. I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

Wentworth Miller

#18. You make me think before I act. You make me want to be a better person-Luxen-whatever.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#19. Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#20. The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.

Susan Cheever

#21. I can't fashion myself into a different person who might be better suited to be his friend.

Franz Kafka

#22. Plant a seed of greatness in your children. Speak a word of encourgement to someone who needs to hear it. Inspire someone to be a better person. One day you'll reap a harvest, and your world will become a better place to live.

George Foreman

#23. I will spend my life loving you and you will spend your happy life making me a better person, as you already have, from your mere presence ... I will be the man you deserve. I'm not quite there, mouse, but I'm working on it.

Belle Aurora

#24. I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?

Lisa Gilbert

#25. Sometimes it's just better to suck up the fact that you are an asshole and decide that tomorrow is the day you will start being the person you intend to be.

Meg Howrey

#26. You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.

Patrick Rothfuss

#27. Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness ... they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

Maria Sharapova

#28. Remember ... that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted,or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.

Stella Chess

#29. You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.

Jeph Jacques

#30. I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to
do something good with my life.

Angelina Jolie

#31. For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity: for me to give the person a better life, to realize where not to be, and to see what could be even better than being with that person I love.

Byron Katie

#32. 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.

Bill Clinton

#33. I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. He's a person who I trust absolutely. He's got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy.

David Cunliffe

#34. Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

Corinne Maier

#35. To tell the truth, though, I don't think I deserve your kindness. I'm trying my best to be a much better person, but things aren't going so well.

Haruki Murakami

#36. I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?

Jennifer Lopez

#37. There were people who knew about stars, who could tell you the name of every star in the sky. ... But she did not understand how it could be important to learn the name of every single star in the sky; surely it was better to know the name of every person in your street?

Gaile Parkin

#38. You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he were a complete idiot, drooling at the mouth, he'd still be a better person then you.

Catherine Cookson

#39. I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Michael Angarano

#40. If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

Paul Gascoigne

#41. But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.

Patricia Richardson

#42. We are all guilty and we all have to be part of the solution. We have to do the best we can and then try to do better. It's not about any one person doing everything; it's about all of us doing something and then maybe a little more.

Laurie David

#43. Maybe he is starting to understand. I don't really care, though. I do not want to be anyone's model for becoming a better person.

E.K. Johnston

#44. She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.

Melina Marchetta

#45. If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

H.L. Mencken

#46. To be a better person, spend less time filling out your personal scorecard and more time being kind . . . to you.

Philip Chard

#47. There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

Marion Ross

#48. Now I know the truth. Ethan's love won't fix me. I have to do that myself. So, no, his love isn't the cure. But it is something to live for. Without him, I might not want to fix myself. Ethan Dexter makes me want to be a better person. To be brave.

Kristen Callihan

#49. I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night.

Juliette Binoche

#50. Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

Jake M. Johnson

#51. I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

Melanie Griffith

#52. We need to know ourselves better so that we can realize what we really want in our life. I think that the first condition for a person to be in a successful relationship is to be happy with the person he or she is, in other words to love themselves.

Tarkan

#53. The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Robert Ringer

#54. It is better to be a failed happy person than to be a successful underachiever.

Laksh Kishore

#55. You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just listen. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.

Brandon Sanderson

#56. The only thing I really want out of my career is to change the course of just one person's life for the better. If I can do that, then I know I'll be happy

B.L. Berry

#57. I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

Raekwon

#58. There is only one person I wake up every morning striving to be better than, and that is myself.

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#59. If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place,

Nick Vujicic

#60. I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

Billy Ray Cyrus

#61. It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.

Frank Iero

#62. The only person you should try to be better than is the one you were yesterday

Unknown

#63. When I play myself, I want to be a slightly better person. It just agrees. Everything I play about myself is kind of true, but it's amplified. We all edit, don't we? If you're self-aware, you stop yourself - you know how to behave properly.

Steve Coogan

#64. Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.

Carlos Salinas

#65. I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

Vincent Van Gogh

#66. I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.

Jennifer Lopez

#67. You've changed me, and you don't even realize it. Just being with you, near you? It makes me want to be a better person. You make me want to take a risk.

Ella Frank

#68. Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

Neal Shusterman

#69. You make me want to be a better person," he says softly. "To deserve you. I want you to know how right you feel to me.

Janet Gurtler

#70. [May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

Cynthia Rylant

#71. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.

Elliot Mabeuse

#72. Rejection Is God's Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.

Pamela Cummins

#73. The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.

Will Smith

#74. I'm not a bad person. I haven't killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don't kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

Gena Showalter

#75. Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

Benjamin Walker

#76. You never actually solve a problem. You just become a better person by understanding it in a better way. Then it ceases to be a problem for you.

Debasish Mridha

#77. I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Colin Farrell

#78. It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

John Ruskin

#79. My fans firstly [inspire me]. They make me want to be a better person and really motivate me when times get tough. Also Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" and, oddly enough, hubcaps.

Ashley Rickards

#80. Not everyone is a morning person. Some of us perform better when we're actually awake. If you're also a night owl, take heart. Night owls are fun loving, seem to be more creative, and may even have a higher IQ than their morning person counterparts ([4]).

Charity Grant

#81. The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

Tiger Woods

#82. I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.

Debi Mazar

#83. I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.

Sarah Paulson

#84. I've tried to be a better person ... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried ... "
"Nice try ... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#85. I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

Lizzo

#86. You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

Richard Rohr

#87. It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.

Angelina Jolie

#88. The only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday

Jenny Lawson

#89. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Joyce Meyer

#90. Being a healthy broke person was better than being an unhealthy broke person. Besides, he needed to think. And to be honest, most of what he did at the gym was more like thinking than exercising.

Marshall Thornton

#91. In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down ... and better than the monster you used to be ...

Paul Nat

#92. The Lord needs us. He needs us to be knowledgeable, dependable, and competent disciples. We need to know not only that the gospel is true but we need to know the gospel, better than we do right now. We need to be in the right place at the right time. We will thereby become the right person.

Robert L. Millet

#93. Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.

Brenna Yovanoff

#94. Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

Mark Haddon

#95. Humans do not want to be better. A person may want to swim better or have a better smile. But they don't want humanity to swim better or have a better smile. It isn't even a question of "want," they don't care. I don't care.

Noah Cicero

#96. So if you're black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America ... but whatever you decide to do, it better be positive, 'cause if one person is harmed, you will be destroyed. You see Oprah, she just be giving away money. She's doing that to keep the Feds off her back.

Chris Rock

#97. He helps make me be the best person I can be. that's how I knew that he was the one. I'm better with him than I was without him.

Selena Laurence

#98. Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.

Bob Proctor

#99. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

McCall Hoyle

#100. True love makes a person reckless, makes them take risks and make sacrifices. True love tests the boundaries of our person, makes us yearn to be better and fight for the ground we stand on. I will fight for this love. Lie for it. Steal for it. It's worthy of that.

Alessandra Torre