Top 100 Better Off You Quotes
#1. You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...
Ben Horowitz
#2. If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better.
Anthony Liccione
#3. No matter how long you live, no matter how mature or philosophical you may grow to be, almost all sudden enlightenment will feel precisely this way, like a boot in the stomach, like acid on your tongue, and the sooner you accept this the better off you'll be.
Ron Currie Jr.
#4. When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has or how tall they are, but rather, what kind of person they are.
Jason Black
#5. You can't make the world perfect, Daniel," Michelle said calmly while dusting dirt off her jeans with her delicate hand.
"No. I can't," I agreed. "But I can sure help make it better.
Shannon A. Thompson
#6. We'd be better off if we only had the words 'I love you.'
Gackt
#7. According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
#8. Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores ... Is there more or less unemployment?
Ronald Reagan
#9. You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)
Joyce Meyer
#10. Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.
Tony Evans
#11. Her eyes suddenly went round. "Hang on. You shoved him!"
"She shoved him?"
I turned to glare at Nate.
"Yes. And she's always running off on him." Suki shook her head at me. "We'd treat him much better if he was ours-
Sarah Alderson
#12. May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc)
You'd better be glad I'm flattered by that. Otherwise I'd gut you. (Zarek)
Ditto. (Jericho)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?
Harry Belafonte
#14. Sometimes jn your life you make a decision and you find yourself questioning it. A lot. You don't regret it, exactly.you know that you probably made the best choice and that you're probably better off for it. But you do spend a lot of time wondering what the hell you were thinking
K.A. Tucker
#15. Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.
Doug Benson
#16. I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.
Bill Burr
#17. Look, Lawrence, I know you never cared for me-"
Law cut him off.
"Cared for you? Cared for you? What am I? The gardener?"
"Okay, you always hated me-"
"Better," Law said. "You're wrong of course, but you said what you meant this time.
Jez Morrow
#18. Jensen looked concerned.
"I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?"
He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering 'I told you so' look that I personally wanted to scrape off Vanelli's face with a blowtorch.
Katherine Bayless
#19. If I were you, I wouldn't try and track her down."
"Why not?"
"Because when it comes to Dee, you're better off not knowing where she's going or what she's up to. You'll only have to lie to the authorities later.
Shelly Laurenston
#20. I think most new writers are better off going with traditional publishers who will actually, at a minimum, edit your work, package it well, and market it for you.
Ellen Datlow
#21. When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.
Frank Lampard
#22. You can literally go on and on and on with the blame game, but let me tell you, it only causes more heartache. You will be no better off and will still have no answers.
Sharon Critchfield
#23. Next time you think of me like that , say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better.
J.R. Ward
#24. We kissed, and sparks went off in my chest. At the end of the night he said, 'I know what you're thinking. You're wondering if I'll call tomorrow. I'll do better than that.' He called me the minute I got home and we talked till I fell asleep. I was smitten.
Gemma Burgess
#25. Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
Paul Auster
#26. A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's got a two-day head start. So, if I just look at it every day, I'm so much better off.
Daniel Alarcon
#27. I love you, but I hate you. I miss you, but I'm better off without you. I want you out of my life, but I never want to let you go.
Minhal Mehdi
#28. The sooner you learn women rule this world, the better off you'll be.
Julia Crane
#29. And I said to him when you learn to read then you learn everything you didnt know before. But when you write you write only what you know allready so patientia Im better off not knowing how to write because the ass is the ass
Umberto Eco
#30. With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.
Rodney Atkins
#31. It is better to have no hope than just a little hope. A little hope just gets you thinking something good is about to happen. And when that little hope is taken away, you are worse off than before.
Richard LeMieux
#32. If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.
John Rhys-Davies
#33. Female humans need communication, a lot of it. It's fucking annoying but, trust me, you're better off giving it to her than suffering the consequences.
Kristen Ashley
#34. He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise. He looked off to one side of it to see it the better. There was someone standing beside it. Then they were gone. There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're goin to die.
Cormac McCarthy
#35. Now you've a clean start ... you've brushed three or four ornaments down, and in a fit of pique knocked off the rest of them. The thing now is to collect some new ones, and the farther you look ahead in the collecting, the better, but remember, do the next thing.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#36. The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand
#37. To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino
#38. In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.
Peter Thiel
#39. Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
John Bolton
#40. It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.
Louis Theroux
#41. Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#42. I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on YOU to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.""
Bernadette
Maria Semple
#43. So if you're black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America ... but whatever you decide to do, it better be positive, 'cause if one person is harmed, you will be destroyed. You see Oprah, she just be giving away money. She's doing that to keep the Feds off her back.
Chris Rock
#45. Having a studio at home is like having a gym at home - sometimes you're just better off going out.
Nick Rhodes
#46. The way I figure is we win as a team and we lose as a team, but I've got to figure out some way where I can have a better April and help the team get off to a better start. I normally heat up when it gets warm, but it would be nice to come out of April and everybody is chasing you.
Albert Belle
#47. We'll all be better off the day we stop letting unhappy, unsuccessful people tell us how to be happy and successful. You already know the way ... follow it.
Steve Maraboli
#48. Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
Harmon Killebrew
#49. It's like life, isn't it? You think you'll outrun it, that you're better than it, but it makes a fool of you every time. It runs you into the ground and steams off whistling away, happy as buggery with itself.
Richard Flanagan
#50. I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.
Brett Favre
#51. No, it's because you're f**king pathetic. You're no better than a human and to top it off you're nothing but a whore.
R.L. Mathewson
#52. Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.
Paul Wolfowitz
#53. You better ignore this.
You better staple your eyes shut
and put pot-lids over your ears
and pinch your nose with vice grips
and cement your mouth shut
with real cement and while
you're at it or in it or whatever
cut off your hands for good measure
B.J. Ward
#54. Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.
Carol Ann Duffy
#55. I use the same products on my body as I use on my face. I don't think there's really any difference between the two, so the more moisturizers and serums you use, the better off you are.
Martha Stewart
#56. Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.
Richard Branson
#57. When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
Karin Slaughter
#58. No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.
Fiona Apple
#59. You're better off without me.
And I don't want to be around when you realize it.
Robyn Schneider
#60. I guess if you're not going to win the championship, you're better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.
Tony Stewart
#61. Remember, sometimes diplomacy is the better side of warfare."
"Dipolomacy is a lot easier to accomplish if you've got your foe on his knees hoping you don't lop off his head.
C.J. Redwine
#62. The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like, the freer the system, the better off the ordinary poor people have been.
Milton Friedman
#63. You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
Betty Grable
#64. They're still advertising the added health-giving advantages of vitamins in your daily diet, although it has long since been shown that you'd be better off eating Smarties.
Terry Wogan
#65. When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.
Kevin Hart
#66. We refuse to dismiss the experts, we listen to them ... they all agree that Britain is better off in, you are better off in.
Ruth Davidson
#67. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Ronald Reagan
#68. I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.
Michael Winslow
#69. When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.)
Daniel Quinn
#70. There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".
John Denver
#71. Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.
Bill Burr
#72. Good stuff gets worse and bad stuff gets better, so you're better off to spend a little time making friends with all of it.
Sara Bareilles
#73. Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.
Christopher Titus
#74. The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#75. I'm young, and I'm a girl, so, when I post something, I want to see what people are saying or what they think of my photos. I've found it better if you don't read anything and you just always stay off that track.
Kylie Jenner
#76. We are here as a reminder that the world is not better off without you.
Frank Iero
#77. I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated.
Sheena Iyengar
#78. Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#79. The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.
Jerry Seinfeld
#80. You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.
Harvey MacKay
#81. There is value in every date and every relationship regardless of where it ends up. Not everyone is going to love you, and the sooner you can embrace that and be okay with it, the better off you will be in the dating minefield. The opinion of others doesn't make us who we are.
Cindy Johnson
#82. If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.
Warren Buffett
#83. Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
Damien Hirst
#84. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
Ira Glass
#85. It is important-even necessary-for us to become acutely aware of the fact that we can't trust ourselves. The only ones you can trust to some extent are people who really know that. We had better get this straight.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#86. It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.
Michael Leunig
#87. The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
Green Day
#88. The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.
Ice-T
#89. Why would Dad call you? I mean, you have to admit that he would have been better off calling the local prison and asking them to send out one of the convicted killers to come find me. - Shella
Krista Alasti
#90. As to whether it will increase will depend very much on that feel-good factor and the sense of confidence being restored in the people that life is going to get much better for them here at the end of the day. I do not think you will be able to shut the tap off. It will not stop abruptly like that.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
#91. Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.
David Schmidtz
#92. I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.
Jon Lovitz
#93. There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that
Larry Bird
#94. Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.
Mark Zuckerberg
#95. from the poem Holographic Personality Disgrace:
Some people are such assholes that saying, "Look, again, I'm sorry I cut off my thumb and glued it to your baby's head because I thought you'd like him better as a unicorn" means nothing to them.
Sam Pink
#96. Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by saying you will create so much additional resources that everyone will be better off. I don't think that's true.
Esther Duflo
#97. People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
Stephen King
#98. True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.
Ian Somerhalder
#99. Though Trish and her bad boy types weren't exactly Kindra's style, she had to agree that Violet went for quiet and uninteresting. Sort of like mild salsa. Why even bother? You'd be better off just biting a tomato.
Erin McCarthy
#100. When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it.
Jackie Earle Haley
