Top 100 Better For Quotes
#1. Sometimes ... it's better for a man just to walk away.
But if you can't walk away?
I guess that's when it's tough.
Arthur Miller
#2. I have learned that I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.
Ron Hall
#3. My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
Thomas A Kempis
#4. It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.
Lita Ford
#5. I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
Laura Linney
#6. If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Claude Pepper
#7. Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one.
Elliott Abrams
#8. Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.
Tom Rath
#9. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact.
Joe Abercrombie
#10. No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#11. ... because commonsensically speaking, a room full of good books had to better for your health than a room with no books in it at all.
Susan Branch
#12. I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.
Michael Moritz
#13. A philosopher thinks out loud to make things better for everyone else. Fanatics make themselves louder because they think they are better than everyone else.
Corey Taylor
#14. You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.
Frank Langella
#15. Fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.
Sam Altman
#16. The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead.
Glenn Hubbard
#17. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
Amy Bloom
#18. Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You'll look and feel way better for it.
Suzanne Somers
#19. You're almost as good as Peabody."
He stopped at the door, grabbed her up in a steaming kiss. "You can't get that from Peabody."
"I could if I wanted." But it made her grin as he uncoded the locks. "But I like you better for sex.
J.D. Robb
#20. Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.
Scilla Elworthy
#21. I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
Francis Chan
#22. The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.
Swami Vivekananda
#23. I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in life should be so regimented that you're not having fun or can't enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you.
Carrie Ann Inaba
#24. I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country [Italy]. Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.
Andrea Bocelli
#25. You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.
Nicholas Sparks
#26. I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
Diane Lane
#27. Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#28. I don't for one moment believe that these folks believe that it is better for an infant or a toddler to be in day care than to be home with Mom. I do believe that these folks feel guilty for not wanting to be at home, so they devise a new reality to compensate for their uncomfortable feelings.
Laura Schlessinger
#29. I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it ... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.
Aubrey Beardsley
#30. Cook things, eat them with other people. If you can tire your own bones while growing the beans, so much the better for you.
Kristin Kimball
#31. So what was better for us all? An ignorance, or a cautiousness like his, towards our own hearts.
Michael Ondaatje
#32. What satisfaction do you, personally, get from being a writer?" Lanark tried to remember. He said, "It's the only disciplined work I remember trying. I sleep better for it.
Alasdair Gray
#33. ...What is easier for us isn't necessarily what is better for us.
Nick Carter
#34. Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.
Henry Ford
#35. One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel De Cervantes
#36. Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.
C. JoyBell C.
#37. We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.
Paul Farmer
#38. More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.
Cory Booker
#39. I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.
Laura Wasser
#40. Let's stop "tolerating" or "accepting" difference, as if we're so much better for not being different. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different and to act differently.
Kate Bornstein
#41. Everyone hates being wrong, Adolin thought. Except my father said he'd rather be wrong, if it would be better for Alethkar. Adolin doubted many lighteyes would rather be proven mad than right.
Brandon Sanderson
#42. Sometimes you tell the truth, and things are better for it. Other times truth hangs in the air like a fog, clouding the pretty lies.
David Arnold
#43. It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure
Jules Verne
#44. Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.
Remy De Gourmont
#45. I know we live in a very sexist world, and a lot of boys do nothing except get in trouble, until one day they grow up and dominate every aspect of society. But girls, at least while they're still girls and perform well, seem to do everything better for a while. Seem to get the attention.
Meg Wolitzer
#46. I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.
Andre Dubus III
#47. The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.
Timothy Noah
#48. It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.
Bill Maher
#49. If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
George Eliot
#50. Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?
Kami Garcia
#51. If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.
Nicky Gumbel
#52. Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.
Augustus William Hare
#53. Most injuries require chiropractic care. It works better for me than anything else.
Jerry Rice
#54. It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani
#55. Kids are always infatuated with the action in martial arts films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.
Thomas Ian Griffith
#56. Week after Clyde left you I heard that Cocoa wake up to her cootchie spoilt like a rotten oyster. Didn't get better for three months. Bertrina she good friends with Cocoa She knows your prayer works.
Kathryn Stockett
#57. The hardest part of writing a story is making bad things happen to good people. The hardest part of writing horror is knowing that it won't really get better for them.
Allison M. Dickson
#58. With this magazine, you could change the 'H' to 'G', it may be funnier and better for sales.
Wladimir Klitschko
#59. I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.
Tim O'Reilly
#60. Better for the judge to see my innocence than for me to think I see it. It is very comfortable for me to know that I am one of God's people - but whether I know it or not, if the Lord knows it,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another.
Jacque Fresco
#62. Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.
Sylvia Day
#63. Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.
Cheryl Strayed
#64. A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people & the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.
Leonora Carrington
#66. For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#67. The more people who game, the better for everyone.
Warren Spector
#68. Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
Michael Pollan
#69. Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#70. It would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought stood for reason and the love of peace instead of heading wildly with blind obsession for new war.
Hermann Hesse
#71. I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
Vincent Van Gogh
#72. Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied.
Kristen Crockett
#73. Every day, all of us at Gannett are given the rare and sacred opportunity to affect change for the good in the communities we serve, to make life better for the people who trust us to know them and do right by them.
Gracia Martore
#74. The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice. It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you.
Richard Wyckoff
#75. I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.
Liev Schreiber
#76. There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few.
Howard Zinn
#77. It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
Edward Norton
#78. My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.
Loretta Chase
#79. The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
Louisa May Alcott
#80. My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.
Emily Deschanel
#81. Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared ... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.
Ann Brashares
#82. Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.
Kathryn Orford
#83. Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.
Jan Gehl
#84. I am, of course, a rogue. A rapscallion. A musician. I would bring her nothing but poverty, shame, and bruised shins from my flailing limbs. She is the better for our parting.
Sarah Dessen
#85. To love one's neighbor is a tough command. It works better for people who live far away.
C.J. Langenhoven
#87. I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.
David Bowie
#88. The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.
J.C. Ryle
#89. I think it is better for societies if no one dominates forever.
Jean Louis
#90. When the ceremony was over, everybody felt a great deal better, for it had been a day of fun. They were better able now to see the greenness of the world, the wideness of the sacred day, the colors of the earth, and to set these in their minds.
John G. Neihardt
#91. There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.
Dom Starsia
#92. God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.
Arthur W. Pink
#93. The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.
Isaiah Thomas
#94. There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.
Varlam Shalamov
#95. He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.
Michael Chabon
#96. Everything is always better for a walk.
Garth Nix
#97. Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
Dorothea Dix
#98. The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.
W. Averell Harriman
#99. O Christie! never think it's time to die till you are called; for the Lord leaves us till we have done our work, and never sends more sin and sorrow than we can bear and be the better for, if we hold fast by Him.
Louisa May Alcott
#100. I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time.
Jon Favreau
