Top 100 Be Better Than Quotes
#1. We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#2. It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#3. You have always and will always be my first. My first love, the first girl I ever kissed, the first girl I ever touched. The mind is a powerful thing, and I know for a fact the fantasy of you will always be better than the reality of anyone else. You are my heart. You are my saviour. You are my sky.
J.B. Hartnett
#4. I stand and grab a hefty bottle of perfume from the bathroom shelf and return to the bedroom door. It's not much of a weapon, I know, but it's heavy and square, and hitting someone over the head with a glass brick has got to be better than bitch-slapping them.
Nick Alexander
#5. I can barely breathe but I think that his lips might be better than oxygen at the moment.
Autumn Doughton
#6. I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.
Justine Bateman
#7. I'm scared. What will tomorrow bring? It has to be better than today. It has to.
Julie Anne Peters
#8. Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.
Anne Robinson
#9. At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.
Seth Godin
#10. A cocktail will never be better than its cheapest ingredient.
David A. Embury
#11. The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
Damien Hirst
#12. To be better than 31 other teams, you better be a really good team. It's just not about one person.
Jeffrey Lurie
#13. Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.
James Hillman
#14. Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
Cheryl Hines
#15. Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow.
Dean Koontz
#16. Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?
Lori Wilde
#17. Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
John Wooden
#18. As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that pour over an editor's desk, he cannot afford to be 'as good as'; he (or she) must be 'better than.
Phyllis A. Whitney
#19. So go ahead and face that fear, make that effort, move forward into new territory and fully live the grand possibilities with which you're blessed. Boldly face life, and you'll find it to be better than you ever imagined.
Ralph Marston
#20. Even if you choose someone who is not necessarily the love of your life, married life will be better than what you have now, with just your father and yourself. It is not good to sleep alone night after night.
J.M. Coetzee
#21. Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
Nelson Mandela
#22. Successful people love what they do and feel compelled t express the best that is within them. They don't strive to be better than their neighbors or contemporaries they strive to be better than themselves.
Brian Souza
#23. Think meanly of me, Lina," said he. "Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea; I make no pretension to be better than my fellows.
Charlotte Bronte
#24. Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That's why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.
Lou Ferrigno
#25. An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
#26. A slow fear, heavy, like sadness ... which made her realize that her fear was a kind of sadness, because she couldn't be better than her fear.
Marie Rutkoski
#27. There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.
Ogwo David Emenike
#28. When you love someone, you stand for all of it. You see all of it, because even when they're in pain, it would still be better than losing them completely.
Amelia LeFay
#29. So you're not going to speak tonight," Tessa said. "At all."
"Not unless you instruct me to," said Will.
"This evening sounds as if it might be better than I thought.
Cassandra Clare
#30. No matter how screwed up life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start where you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know tomorrow's gonna be better than yesterday
Robyn Schneider
#31. The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
Jack Antonoff
#32. So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
Mika Waltari
#33. Creating life as I go and editing when needed in order to move forward. Always under construction to do and be better than yesterday.
Donal O'Callaghan
#34. A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.
Robert Hugh Benson
#35. My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.
Mark Lawrenson
#36. Okay ... My name is Ellie Mason and I have a feeling you don't like me."
Kylie stopped and swerved around ... "Okay, let's get something out in the open. I know you had sex with Derek."
"Damn!" Perry said, and grinned. "This is gonna be better than I thought.
C.C. Hunter
#38. Okay, why couldn't he just be drinking right now? Still, bassinet jockeying one of these pooping machines had to be better than dodging bullets.
Right?
V glanced at the matched set of milk addicts. Fine, maybe the goo-goo, gaga/Glock assessment was more of a fifty-fifty.
J.R. Ward
#39. Kobe Bryant will be better than Michael Jordan
Mark Jackson
#40. There's always someone going to come around who can be better than the best. You want to be the first. No one can ever forget the first.
Cyhi The Prynce
#41. I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.
Marc Jacobs
#42. One of those cases where you couldn't just fold. God, across the table of Fate, was picking His nose, scratching His ear, laying on tells with a prodigal hand, it had to mean something, and a faulty guess would be better than none.
Thomas Pynchon
#43. The voice of the Dreamer convinced me that 'later' would always be better than 'now', that 'someday' is where life will really happen and high school is just something we have to get through before we can live our real lives.
Emily P. Freeman
#44. Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.
Elvis Presley
#45. The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
Henry Ward Beecher
#46. What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?
Paul Newman
#47. It was a protein rush to the cortex, a clean, three-ingredient high, eaten with the hands. Could anything be better than that? As
Anthony Bourdain
#48. You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.
Bo Bennett
#49. I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.
Artur Schnabel
#50. When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.
William Butler Yeats
#51. You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.
John Wooden
#52. I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
Peter Hargreaves
#53. When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!
W.B.Yeats
#54. May all the ones ahead be better than those that have already passed.
Carolyn Brown
#55. There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other.
Esmeralda Santiago
#56. I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.
Frances Lear
#57. I want it to be better than okay. You deserve better than okay.
Tammara Webber
#58. You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn't know? You didn't deny life but affirmed your taste for the unknown, betting that if something existed on the other side, it would be better than here.
Edouard Leve
#59. Just be with me. Please. We don't have much time left. And I have the strongest feeling that having part of you is going to be better than having all of anybody else." I
Leisa Rayven
#60. You can't keep putting out the same record, it has to be better than the last thing you did. You have to find out what sucks, you have to stop doing what sucks ... you've gotta find out what you're doing right, and you've gotta do more of that.
Jordan Buckley
#61. Today you are lifted higher. Understand that you can go further and be better than you ever thought possible. Start by saying yes to all good things. Doors will open for you filled with unlimited opportunities.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#62. I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
Thomas Kretschmann
#63. Why do they treat us so, Moash? Because they know they should be better than they are. Because they see discipline in bridgemen, and it embarrasses them. Rather than bettering themselves, they take the easier road of jeering at us.
Brandon Sanderson
#64. We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?
David Bezmozgis
#65. No matter how we grieve over our bad luck, nothing will happen. We have to smile and believe that tomorrow will be better than today.
Tachibana Higuchi
#66. Wearing a $1,000 suit and driving a Ferrari may be better than riding around in a beaten-up
pickup truck, but when it's all said and done, it'll be the experiences you remember, not the stuff.
John Hawkins
#67. The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.
Dalai Lama XIV
#68. I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now
Kerri Walsh
#69. I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?
Jim Edmonds
#70. I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.
Jackie Kay
#71. Over the longer term, we need to work toward a pro-growth tax code that is fairer and simpler than what we have now. Anything that meets those criteria is going to be better than the failing and dysfunctional tax code we have today.
Joni Ernst
#72. I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.
Jack Kirby
#73. What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.
Herb Brooks
#74. Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.
Pentti Linkola
#75. What immersion has taught us is that comprehensible subject-matter teaching is language teaching - the subject matter class is a language class if it is made comprehensible. In fact, the subject-matter class may even be better than the language class for language acquisition.
Stephen D. Krashen
#77. And maybe a few days of freedom would be better than a lifetime spent as a slave.
Becky Allen
#78. The truth may be better than lies ... But it doesn't always set you free.
Harlan Coben
#80. Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors?
Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
Franz Grillparzer
#81. I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than everyone I was around. That's what drove me. I wanted to be better than my role models. I'm super competitive.
Danica Patrick
#82. You don't have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy.
Andre Agassi
#83. It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry
#84. Think about what life will be like without me because I've already considered that question. And I've decided that no life at all would be better than living without you.
Diana Palmer
#85. Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.
Grace Gealey
#86. The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
Luciano Pavarotti
#87. It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.
Kano Jigoro
#88. Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#90. No, the hurts of the mind were too strange, too invisible, too magical to hope for the same kind of tolerance and help from even the best of people. It frightens me, thought DeAnne. Why should I expect others to be better than I am?
Orson Scott Card
#91. Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.
Howard Warren Buffett
#92. Guys, we spend our whole lives trying to get pussy, so when pussy comes to us, it's like, "Whoa, this is amazing!" At 27, I thought nothing could be better than that, but at 35, I've come to understand the darker side of it.
Tucker Max
#93. You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success ... I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
Dan Jansen
#94. What could be better than to sit besides the fire with a book and a glowing lamp while the wind beats outside the windows...
Gustave Flaubert
#95. The only woman I have to be better than is the one I was yesterday...I have no competition.
Dawn Jasper
#96. Their conflicting sounds oppose one another, outdo one another, and fight to be better than one another. The crescendo of the heart being ripped to shreds, loves ... .
Mai Nishikata
#97. You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that's important.
Blake Griffin
#98. It doesn't have to be perfect to be better than a hotbed of rape threats and Nazi memes.
Adam Kotsko
#99. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.
Jon Meacham
#100. Leena and Kelly Davidson have always lived a comfortable life. Neither girl has ever held a job nor did they intend to get one. All they wanted was to live off their parents' money for their rest of their lives. What could be better than that?
Valenciya Lyons
