Top 100 Being Better Than Quotes
#1. And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are ... capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.
Dan Brown
#2. In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.
David Brooks
#3. We don't do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.
Derek Landy
#4. True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.
Portia De Rossi
#5. The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Steve Young
#6. Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.
Bruce Davison
#7. We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
William Hazlitt
#8. I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday,
Selena Gomez
#9. Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.
Nathaniel Branden
#10. What's the point of being better than someone else?
Noam Chomsky
#11. A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.
Saint Bernard
#12. It's not a bad idea." "It's a terrible idea," Oi said. "It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.
John Scalzi
#13. O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all in the search, all in the anticipation. When it came, there might be nothing there.
Brigid Brophy
#15. When you're on the road, there is awlays the promise of the next stop being better than the last
Gayle Forman
#16. When you're on the road, there is always the promise of the next stop being better than last
Gayle Forman
#17. Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others; failure is an opportunity, not a condemnation; effort is the key to success.
Carol S. Dweck
#18. Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
Jack Welch
#19. Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday.
Harry Wong
#20. In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She'd bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena's, which had led to Mount Olympus's first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.
Rick Riordan
#21. Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others
Dominick Cruz
#22. Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard.
CM Punk
#23. To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.
Heinrich Rohrer
#24. Right away we were very good at it, and you like what you are good at, and being better than other people at something is fun. Is that love?
Meg Howrey
#25. Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.
Randy Anderson
#26. You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...
Ben Horowitz
#27. i don't take breaks. you're either with me or you lose me to someone better than you. i refuse to give you a pass to freely fuck someone else then return to me when you're tired of being fucked over..
R H Sin
#28. You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.
Anthony Bourdain
#29. I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.
Dennis Wholey
#30. Angry is good.
Angry is better than being tearful
E.L. James
#31. But when you're naturally better than everyone else, and when that talent is so utterly obvious, being quiet doesn't translate as humble. It translates as boredom.
Chuck Klosterman
#32. Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
Gail Collins
#33. For a man under suspicion movement is better than rest, for the man who is at rest can always, without knowing it, be on the scales being weighed together with his sins.
Franz Kafka
#34. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.
Malcolm Gladwell
#35. He was naturally kind, she was starting to realize, which was better than being charming.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#36. Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.
Tony Hendra
#37. We're not mindless golems, designed to think exactly the same thing. To try to suppress those thoughts is no better than slavery, and being free to say what you want, write what you want or draw what you want, as long as it doesn't offend anyone... That's no freedom at all.
T.J. Dixon
#38. You and I? It may end badly. I may get hurt. But guess what? I don't care! I've never had my heart broken. Maybe I'm fine with risking it, because it's better than being afraid and going through life bored.
Jasinda Wilder
#39. There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.
Amanda Mosher
#40. To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.
Thomas Sowell
#41. I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.
Anthony Liccione
#42. Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring ... I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful ... that they are alive, if for nothing else.
L.M. Montgomery
#43. Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang
#44. We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.
Hill Harper
#45. It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#46. Don't compare yourself to other MOMS ... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.
Tanya Masse
#47. What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?
Dorothea Benton Frank
#48. Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!
Kathleen Silber
#49. Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.
C.S. Lewis
#50. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.
Adhish Mazumder
#51. It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
Sinclair Lewis
#52. To be honest I always have to say no one is guiding me better than God
David Archuleta
#53. The good thing about being undiscovered is that every time you begin a new writing project it feels like this work will be the best one you have done, this one will be better than the last, a higher standard of writing, and that's the way it should be.
Robert Black
#54. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
Umar
#55. We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.
Holly Black
#56. It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.
Larry Ellison
#57. In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).
Peter Thiel
#58. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone.
- Gabrielle
Ally Carter
#60. The high that I got from helping people and being around the love was better than any other high I've gotten from any drug
Demi Lovato
#61. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
Tom Felton
#62. But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
Victoria Legrand
#63. As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
Harper Lee
#64. Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#65. He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.
John Tillotson
#66. 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
#67. Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.
Daniel Goleman
#68. Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.
Bertrand Russell
#69. It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
Ryan Phillippe
#70. The key to a thrilling life of being sensitive to the voice of God and immediately obeying Him is the firm belief that God's plan for our lives is fundamentally better than anything we can dream up.
Rod Loy
#71. There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
Pat Summitt
#72. 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
#73. I do think, oddly, that a comedic actor has a better chance of pulling off a dramatic role than a great dramatic actor has of being able to pull off a highly comedic role.
Lizzy Caplan
#74. Achieving the good life is more a matter of being than of doing or giving. It calls for intense self-scrutiny, a relentless honesty about one's motives, and a persistent feeling that we are no better - and perhaps worse - than those we are trying to help.
Sydney J. Harris
#75. Most people decide at some point that it is better ... to be enthralled with what is impoverished or abusive than not to be enthralled at all and so to lose the condition of one's being and becoming.
Maggie Nelson
#76. I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.
Nathan Fillion
#77. Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out.
Scott Westerfeld
#78. Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do
Jodi Picoult
#79. As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!
Michael Biehn
#80. When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.
Conan O'Brien
#81. There's no better feeling than being on a Broadway stage for me.
Jennifer Damiano
#82. Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.
PureDragonWolf
#83. I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.
Heather Langenkamp
#84. I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa
#85. Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#86. 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
#87. She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.
Elias Canetti
#88. It was better to be angry than to be hurt; maybe even better than being loved and held by him, because maybe anger was what she'd been feeling toward him all along, anger disguised as wanting.
Jonathan Franzen
#89. Until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.
Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
#90. Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. In other words, he looked like uniformed police hotness, and she wasn't entirely uninterested in being cuffed. Wait. That's a bad thought. I don't mean it. She took him in again, her throat suddenly dry. Well, she didn't exactly not mean it, but she knew better than to want it.
Cindi Madsen
#92. My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.
Suzy Menkes
#93. Nothing anywhere could be better than being at home with the home folks, she was sure.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#94. Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play any character. Even for a stylized bad guy, there are 4 or 5 different personalities I can play off the top of my head without thinking - better and more experienced actors can do dozens or hundreds.
Conan Stevens
#95. Being true to yourself is better than being a liar just to impress everyone.
Nancy Wright
#96. The only way to describe my involvement in 'Planes' is that it's an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I can't imagine anything getting better than that!
Roger Craig Smith
#97. To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
Malcolm McLaren
#98. Simon," I say, and swallow again, "you're being idiotic."
"Because I like this better than fighting?"
"There is no 'this'!" I protest.
"You slept in my arms," he says.
"Fitfully.
Rainbow Rowell
#99. There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.
John Tesh
#100. I'm torn between wanting the absolute best for my daughter and being jealous that she has it so much better than I ever did.
Jill Smokler
