Top 100 Better Off Quotes
#1. Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.
Steve Pavlina
#2. War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?
- Quellcrist Falconer
Richard K. Morgan
#4. I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery.
Marlon Wayans
#5. Yeah, if it hadn't been for me everybody'd be a lot better off
my wife and my kids and my friends ... I wish I'd never been born.I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.
Frances Goodrich
#6. Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
John Brunner
#7. I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
Brian May
#8. Stars are better off without us," he said, but too softly for anyone but Julie to hear.
James S.A. Corey
#9. Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.
Paul Ryan
#10. I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.
Drake
#11. I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.
Wayne Newton
#12. Those who don't read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.
Thomas Jefferson
#13. She could live without her past. She was better off without her past. But Ian couldn't live without his heart.
Dana Marton
#14. I end up discussing the weather when the weather is all around us and both I and whoever the stranger might be must surely have noticed it. We would be better off asking each other if our faces are still there.
A. L. Kennedy
#15. The more experienced you are, the better off you are.
Ned Colletti
#16. The truth is the truth. You are better off knowing the truth than not knowing it.
Jack Canfield
#17. It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.
John Travolta
#18. If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you're a lot better off.
Bindi Irwin
#19. We'd all be a heap sight better off if we'd forget the highfalutin notions of our fancy civilization and mind more what the savages knew long before us: to honor our mother.
Anonymous
#20. People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
Dashiell Hammett
#21. I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.
Johnny Carson
#22. Ever since the French Revolution, people throughout the world have gradually come to see both equality and individual freedom as fundamental values. Yet the two values contradict each other. Equality can be ensured only by curtailing the freedoms of those who are better off.
Yuval Noah Harari
#23. The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.
Rashi
#24. I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off.
Charlie Munger
#25. Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
Orson Scott Card
#26. I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#27. Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.
Tony Gaskins
#28. Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.
Passenger
#29. We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.
Michael Moorcock
#30. GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
Barbara Kruger
#31. Free white workers were better off than slaves or servants, but they still resented unfair treatment by the wealthier classes.
Howard Zinn
#32. It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
Adam Schiff
#33. I spent a long time trying to convince myself you were better off without me. That keeping away from you was the best way to keep you safe. But I can't do it anymore. I won't. See, you and I mated for life about a million years ago, little bird. Without you, there's no music. No love. No life.
Julie Johnson
#34. I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.
Wim Wenders
#35. These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave ... I think the world would be better off if we did leave ...
George W. Bush
#36. (Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.
Larry Eskridge
#37. He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.
David Peace
#38. DAY THREE I DECLARE I have the grace I need for today. I am full of power, strength, and determination. Nothing I face will be too much for me. I will overcome every obstacle, outlast every challenge, and come through every difficulty better off than I was before. This is my declaration.
Joel Osteen
#39. Nobody understands the world they're in, but some people are better off at it than others.
Richard Feynman
#40. People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
Neil Kinnock
#41. Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
LZ Granderson
#42. One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.
Andrew Young
#43. When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.
Joel Osteen
#44. Telling someone like my mother that Hell is a real, physical place, somewhere you can travel to and from, would be like spray-painting the statue of Jesus hanging over the pulpit during mass. Better off telling her the Pope is gay.
Bill Blais
#45. You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.
Sylvia Kristel
#46. A good doctor. He would not let her take pills. Try each day just to laugh a little bit, it's a good medicine, he said. Pills were a second option. I should have taken them. No. Better off to try laughing. Die laughing.
Colum McCann
#47. Like many people who lasted any length of time in the rescue professions, she'd worn out the 'if' factor pretty quickly. You were where you were. You went where you went. You did what you could. Mostly, people were better off after you showed up than before.
Nevada Barr
#48. We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested.
Nina Garcia
#49. You're better off single," Bill had always told him. "More marketable. A relationship will threaten your role as America's heartthrob." And always he would add, "Whatever you do, Hill, don't get someone pregnant. It'd be a death knell to your image.
Karen Kingsbury
#50. I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.
Fred Upton
#51. We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#52. The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.
Raimond Gaita
#53. Food is much better off the hand than the fork.
Mario Batali
#54. Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.
Anna Maria Chavez
#55. We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.
Thomas R. Insel
#56. It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed to him that if just a small part of the effort put into war could be put into peace, they'd be so much better off
Elizabeth Berg
#57. Look, anything you do, if it isn't hard, it isn't doing anything for you. So you're better off not doing it. Use your time somewhere else.
Jeff Hobbs
#58. If your opinion is negative, the world is better off not knowing it.
K.L. Adams
#59. No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.
John F. Kennedy
#60. It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.
Seth
#61. And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom
Hayley Williams
#62. When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.
Lewis B. Hershey
#63. Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.
Mark Shand
#64. If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.
G. Gordon Liddy
#65. I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.
Heather Mills
#66. If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.
Daniel Kahneman
#67. I'm all she's got and if I don't make it this time ... You'll pass through the light. A ribbon of guilt twists my stomach. I'm all Kim and Chip have too. But the difference is, they'll be better off without me.
Julie Anne Peters
#68. If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
Lemony Snicket
#69. If there was a spectre haunting France in the 1780's, it was not that of revolution but that of state bankruptcy. The whole social and political structure of France stood in the way of tapping the wealth of the better-off, the only sure way of emerging from the financial impasse.
J.M. Roberts
#70. We can imagine the two of them having this conversation: Consciousness: "Hey, watcha doing over there?" Subconsciousness: "Trust me, you're better off not knowing." Self-protection
Hugh Howey
#71. The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.
Ruth Stout
#72. Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.
Gerry Harvey
#73. The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.
Katie Couric
#74. I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.
John Corey Whaley
#75. There's something uniquely valuable in everyone, and we'll be much happier and better off if we invest the time and energy it takes to find it. But seriously, if the person doesn't clip their toenails or wear clean socks, look elsewhere. There are plenty of options.
Aziz Ansari
#76. I don't have any kids, so I'm not as worried about my heirs as the rest of you, but still: I think the youth of tomorrow might be better off if they knew the physical sensation of cracking a spine and turning the page.
Lisa Lutz
#77. Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#78. I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.
John Gimlette
#79. There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.
Herbert V. Prochnow
#80. That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Because
Donald J. Trump
#81. A writer worth his salt is probably better off in an adversarial relation with the U.S. Senate.
Walker Percy
#82. You're much better off to buy fresh fish from a market as opposed to buying something that's been frozen and processed and covered in breadcrumbs.
Curtis Stone
#83. Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.
Gene Vincent
#84. This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#85. You can have a whole warehouse full of weapons, but if someone attacks you need to get that weapon fast. If you have to run to the warehouse and look around, you're going to get killed. You're better off with a little backpack of weapons instead of that warehouse.
Jon Fitch
#86. Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer.
Anonymous
#87. You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.
Tom Rath
#88. Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
Peter Lynch
#89. If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.
Mark Cuban
#90. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.
Erin Morgenstern
#91. The idea that somehow we're better off today than the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States is totally an alternative universe. The simple fact is that the world has been torn asunder.
Jeb Bush
#92. As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#93. The world is full of things we're better off not knowing.
Ann Patchett
#94. who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers?
Arthur C. Clarke
#95. I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.
Joyce Meyer
#96. That crap about being better off under slavery is too much even for you, isn't it, Foy?'
'At least McJones cares.'
'Come on, he cares about black people like a seven-footer cares about football. He has to care because what else would he be good at.
Paul Beatty
#98. We're the new face of failure
Prettier and younger but not any better off
Bullet proof loneliness
At best, at best
Fall Out Boy
#99. When you can't control a situation," he nodded toward his hindquarters, "your best move is to control how you feel about it. In situations like that you're almost always better off forcing vibrancy than feeling vulnerable.
Tim Tigner
#100. She made the same money in ten minutes that I had made in a day with some hours thrown in. Monetarily speaking, it seemed sure as shit you were better off having a pussy than a cock.
Charles Bukowski
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