Top 100 Be Better Quotes
#1. Go where ye list,' as the Good Book says. But go there alive, Trisha. Don't be no ghost. If you turn into one of those, it might be better if you stayed away.
Stephen King
#2. Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.
Ronald Reagan
#3. If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.
George Clooney
#4. I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.
Nic Pizzolatto
#5. You both make each other want to be better people, and that's a feckin' rare thing. Far too many couples drown each other in their own selfishness these days.
R.J. Prescott
#6. We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.
Bruno Latour
#7. I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
Larry Harvey
#8. We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.
Maya Angelou
#9. It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am - I push myself to be better, constantly.
Denny Hamlin
#10. All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.
George Orwell
#11. There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.
Jodi Picoult
#12. It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.
Christopher Jones
#14. Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.
Hasso Plattner
#15. Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.
Michael Jordan
#16. Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
David Pearce
#17. Instead of taking care to acquaint ourselves with others, we only think of making ourselves known to them. It would be better to listen to other people in order to become enlightened rather than to speak so as to shine in front of them.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#18. I may not be the best at anything, but I can be better than mediocre.
Krista Ritchie
#19. She wondered what he'd make of the murder. "Well, well," he would say, "veddy bad. But would it be better if we did not know about it? No. Certainly not. And if we know, must we not do something about it? Certainly. If only to pray.
Mary Anne Kelly
#20. I must be better, she thought - realising it then, in that moment, for the first time. I must be OK.
Sarah Waters
#21. It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.
Lois Lowry
#22. On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
James Cronin
#23. George Orr stayed in Portland because he had always lived there and because he had no reason to believe that life anywhere else would be better, or different.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#24. I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.
Elton John
#25. I don't want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.
Katherine Center
#27. If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.
Howard Zinn
#28. Zombie and guns - what could be better?
Katerina T.
#29. A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.
Max Lucado
#30. If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.
Jim Rohn
#31. Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
Katarina Witt
#32. When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.
Sandra Cisneros
#33. You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
Sidney Poitier
#34. I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be better than I am as a person and I hope that in some way that that makes someone else think and feel something about themselves that then has given them the opportunity to grow.
Renee O'Connor
#35. Five years from now on the web for free you'll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
Bill Gates
#36. When you are the Valtia, you'll be better than good, Elli. You may doubt anything in this world, but never doubt yourself.
Sarah Fine
#37. There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.
David Hewson
#38. God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#39. I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.
Nick Vujicic
#40. The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
Red Cloud
#41. Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
William Hague
#43. It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
Dixie Carter
#44. We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
V.S. Pritchett
#45. Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?
Leonard Ravenhill
#46. Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.
Cristina Henriquez
#47. Reading shows us how to be better human beings, not just successful worker bees.
Donalyn Miller
#48. I made a list of inventions the world would be better off without and, one by one, I uninvented them all.
Neil Gaiman
#49. If your attitudes are good, then your world will be better. Difficulties are more likely to recede and diminish with a favorable and hopeful attitude.
Bryant McGill
#50. I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.
Apolo Ohno
#51. I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
Daniel Radcliffe
#52. She didn't want to change just to be better. Though there was always better to aspire for. It was very confused.
Greg Bear
#53. For since a Prince by birth has fewer occasions and less need to give offence, he ought to be better loved, and will naturally be popular with his subjects unless outrageous vices make him odious.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#54. And don't even suggest that these would be better off in Tiercel's hands. No, Tiercel has other things to do with his life. You, on the other hand, get to protect him. And guess what that makes you?"
"Stupid?" Harrier suggested. "Suicidal?"
"A Knight-Mage!" the unicorn cried cheerfully.
Mercedes Lackey
#55. True love tests the boundaries of our person, makes us yearn to be better and fight for the ground we stand on.
Alessandra Torre
#56. I need you to be better," I said.
"You're really not concerned about him eating me?" he asked, holding his arm out again.
"It'll grow back in a minute."
"That's totally not the point. I'm traumatized.
Amy Tintera
#57. I also think it's possible for us to be better people tomorrow than we are today." He had no idea, of course, whether any of these things were true, in whole or in part. Still, what possible good could come of believing otherwise? -
Richard Russo
#58. You may be more talented than me. You might be smarter than me. And you may be better looking than me. But if we get on a treadmill together, you are going to get off first or I am going to die. It's really that simple. I'm not going to be overworked.
Jay Green
#59. You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.
Greg Jackson
#60. All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.
Rafael Soriano
#61. You cant build on a mass grave. Human beings are better than that - we have to be better than that - I do believe, don't you?" Charlie McGuire, Fatherland
Robert Harris
#62. Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find.
Stephenie Meyer
#63. Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I'm not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.
Eleanor Clift
#64. A win would be better than a draw.
Denis Law
#65. Know yourself in order to be better not to criticize and judge yourself
Abdulkareem Bkar
#66. 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.
Kapil Dev
#67. Hap, even tough I'm a racist castrating bitch that wants you to be better than you are, wants you to do something with your life besides be a knockabout, do you think you could find it in your heart, in your itty-bitty white man's dick, to get a hard-on for me? In other words, want to fuck?
Joe R. Lansdale
#68. I can confidently pass up opportunities that don't make sense because there'll be better ones on the horizon, even if I have to wait.
Julie Klausner
#70. I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier.
Nicholas Lea
#71. I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.
Miguel Cabrera
#72. If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.
Tom Vilsack
#73. No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.
Billy Graham
#74. I wish my abs were a little bit better. God gave me a great body, but I think my abs could be better than they are.
Bryce Harper
#75. But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.
Amy Engel
#76. Can a country's people be better than its planes?
Ismail Kadare
#77. It's foolish to fight the bond between you. You'd be better off going with it and letting the panties drop where they may.
Stacey O'Neale
#78. I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game.
Julie Ann Emery
#79. There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a life than one which consists in a struggle against scarcity.
Ortega Y Gasset
#80. Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.
Tibor Kalman
#81. But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.
Kenichi Fukui
#82. He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The
Michael Moorcock
#83. What I know is that if you put the right policies in place that will lead to economic growth, society will be better.
Anthony Scaramucci
#84. Sometimes when you have a record out, you think you're going to go in at No. 1 but you go in at No. 8. So your second record has to be better. That's how I treat it.
Simon Cowell
#85. Go out there and do your part to change the world. You may not change all you had hoped but the world will be better for the caring demonstrated by your effort.
Michael Josephson
#86. But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.
Mariska Hargitay
#87. We will see every human beings as Christ and we will help Hindus to be better Hindus, Muslims to be better Muslims, and Christians to be better Christians"(Mother Teresa).
Maryanne Raphael
#88. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
#89. Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
Lady Bird Johnson
#90. I think it will be better when I get involved with someone again, because I made this time for me. I haven't really been single for a while, and I think it's been good for me, to lose the fear to be like this.
Penelope Cruz
#91. No one should be able to tail me unnoticed, no matter how good they are.I'm supposed to be better.
Santino Hassell
#92. If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.
Craig Groeschel
#93. Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.
Jonathan Krohn
#94. You know the good thing with hardships and moving on?
you'll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better!
Ira N. Barin
#95. The Hideout is here to help you get through today and tomorrow. Be brave. It's not your fault. Remember, the road will get smoother and there is always hope that tomorrow will be better.
Naomi Wilkinson
#96. I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.
Lil' Wayne
#97. I think you should try ... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.
Anderson Silva
#98. I will never be a loser. Never. Because I will never stop trying to be better.
Toni Sorenson
#99. A son's responsibility isn't to be like his father, but to be better than him.
Jo Nesbo
