Top 100 Better Live Quotes
#1. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
Thomas Huxley
#4. Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
Jon Hamm
#5. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy.
Brandon Sanderson
#6. We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.
Novak Djokovic
#7. Oh, of course, if a man keeps his soul in a bandbox he can produce it immaculate in the end; but what's a soul for if it's not for use? He would much better live in the world with his fellow-men, and help them keep their souls clean, even at the risk of getting his own a little dusty.
Jean Webster
#8. You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Harriet Martineau
#9. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
Neal Barnard
#11. Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.
Jewel
#12. Shai's Uncle Won had taught her that being bested was a rule of life. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy. Last
Brandon Sanderson
#13. I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.
Nina Sankovitch
#14. Me and my band, we love playing live, and I think it shows. We have one of the better live shows in the state, and I think it's because we just love playing live.
Kevin Fowler
#15. Fear is the root of all evil. Better live a single day fearlessly than living a long but fearful life. Especially, never fear another human being. Fear is the root of all relationship problems.
His Holiness Divas
#16. Sorry, Bramblestar!" Purdy gasped. "I'm too old and stiff for this. I can't get up or down, so I'd better live here, okay?
Erin Hunter
#17. Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.
Charles R. Swindoll
#18. Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
George Bernard Shaw
#19. By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.
Ron Conway
#20. Prayer for the Day Higher Power, show me how to live a simple life. I don't have to do everything the hard way if I listen better to You.
Anonymous
#21. Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future.
Theresa Cheung
#22. For generations, Americans have expected something new and better in their lives with every passing day - something that will make life a little more fun to live and a little more enlightening to behold. Exploration accomplishes this naturally. All we need to do is wake up to this fact.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#23. It is better to live in a hut with abundance of unconditional love than live in wealth and splendor but without any love.
Debasish Mridha
#24. You can't appreciate the world you live in and know if it's better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history.
Chris Dietzel
#25. In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That's how meditation lowers biological age.
Deepak Chopra
#26. 3 Because your x steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 4 So I will bless you y as long as I live;
Anonymous
#27. I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.
Larry King
#28. We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
Eduardo Galeano
#29. I think perhaps a better thing to want is fulfillment. A deeper state, one that comes from within, from being your best self. From living life the way you really wish to live it. Then, happiness emanates from within as a byproduct. Naturally.
Kamal Ravikant
#30. Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.
Joseph J. Ellis
#31. Isn't it better to die while you're alive than to live the life of a dead person?
Emmanuel Carrere
#32. I can't think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you,
Than to live and love life more without them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#33. In our time, no less than any other, traditionalists should live out their faiths and their ways in the world, confident that their instruction and example will make that world better and that people will be drawn to the spark.
Yuval Levin
#34. The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you're the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better.
C. JoyBell C.
#35. When humanity truly learns that it is far better to help and love than hurt and destroy each other ... then we will all live in a better world!
Timothy Pina
#36. It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.
Max Muller
#38. You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one,
Majora Carter
#39. What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.
Derek Bok
#40. There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.
Stieg Larsson
#42. For to die with honour is far better than to live disgraced.
Anonymous
#43. Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.
Thomas Menino
#44. As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just ... get better.
Romain Gary
#45. A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.
Rachel Carson
#46. It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
Terry Brooks
#47. The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain
as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
Gautama Buddha
#49. Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#50. It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.
Nelson Mandela
#51. No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on another planet. Show me a dead alien. Better yet, show me a live one!
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#52. I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
Fannie Farmer
#53. If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities.
Michael Cunningham
#54. For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.
Bing Gordon
#55. Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
Octavia E. Butler
#56. How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here all the time and I never even saw it. And then you gave me this chance to make it better, convince you to stay alive and I couldn't do it. How can I live with myself after this, Jessie?
Marsha Norman
#57. We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
Alan Moore
#58. We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.
Chen Shui-bian
#59. It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie
Anthony Venn-Brown
#60. She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent
#61. You told us over and over that you don't think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you'd probably die before you'd think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right?
Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#62. I would not be allowed to be in the web series without playing 'Halo.' I'm awful, by the way. I'm much better at the live action version.
Anna Popplewell
#63. Hell had many interpretations. Syn knew that better than anyone. In his life, he'd managed to live through most of the common variations and discover a multitude of new ones. Why
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. We cannot live in a bubble, Mr. Mundy. Comfortable ignorance is not a solution. In German student societies that I was not permitted to join, they made a toast: 'Better to be a salamander, and live in the fire.'" After
John Le Carre
#65. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
Socrates
#66. There's a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we need to for net-zero emissions, we'll find ourselves with cities that are more secure, healthier, and have more economic opportunity - are frankly better cities to live in - than if we settle for the status quo.
Alex Steffen
#67. Every man at time of Death,
Would fain set forth some saying that may live
After his death and better humankind;
For death gives life's last word a power to live,
And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#68. It is better to die in hope than live in despair.
Yuna
#69. I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I'm not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things,
Rafael Nadal
#70. Life is given to me only once, and never will be again - I don't want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it's better not to live at all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#72. The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.
Ozzy Osbourne
#73. I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, 'I'll never ask anything of Him again;' but, on the contrary, 'He shall hear oftener from me than ever,' and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live.
Philip Henry
#74. Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#75. We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.
Patri Friedman
#76. Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
Socrates
#77. A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done - trying to even the scales before they cross the river.
Conn Iggulden
#78. To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove. I think it's the heartbeat. There's nothing that feels better than that.
Tommy Shannon
#80. 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
#81. Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep.
Madonna
#82. We can't force life to do what we want when we want it. We can't change yesterday or control tomorrow. We can only live today as best we can. And it just might turn out better than expected
Sarah McCoy
#83. Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
William Hazlitt
#84. All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job credential, one that ironically does not even live up to its own claims of guaranteeing either decent employment or a better way of life.
Henry Giroux
#85. Safety and security stifle creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. But then I create to live of it safe and secure one day!
Nathan Haddish Mogos
#86. The American people have worn out their patience being told by their so-called bettors that you don't know how to live your lives the right way. We need to arrange things for you so you can do things better than you would do yourself.
Rush Limbaugh
#87. We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else.
Madonna Ciccone
#88. Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#89. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
Gaston Bachelard
#90. One of the very first things I figured out about life ... is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
Barbara Kingsolver
#91. Safety and security indeed stifles creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. Yet again I create to live of it safe and secure one day, if not everyday...
Nathan Haddish Mogos
#92. There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
Dhani Jones
#93. If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.
W. H. Auden
#94. It would be better for me to die than to live.
Jonah
#95. 24 Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife.
Anonymous
#96. If it makes you feel better, you can tell me to screw off if you want to refuse anything, but I hope you won't because I really want to show you how to live. - Andrew Parrish
J.A. Redmerski
#97. When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance
Phil Harding
#98. I say, gentlemen, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#99. It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.
Charles M. Schulz
#100. If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
Craig Groeschel
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