Top 100 Better People Quotes
#1. A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
John Wooden
#2. I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.
Lee Daniels
#3. If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
C.S. Lewis
#4. Free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.
Mitt Romney
#5. Studies consistently show that the better people think they are at multitasking, the worse they actually are and I am GREAT at it.
John Green
#6. America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.
Charles W. Pickering
#7. You both make each other want to be better people, and that's a feckin' rare thing. Far too many couples drown each other in their own selfishness these days.
R.J. Prescott
#8. Struggle and pain aren't something to fear. We will all face trials while here on earth. What matters is how we're dealing with the challenges that come our way. Do we let them mold us into stronger, better people, or do we grouse and complain about our lot in life?
Colleen Coble
#9. Trusting others is all good and well, but distrusting them is better. People are rotten so always expect the worst in them. This way, when people don't turn out as bad as you thought they'd be, you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's a lot better than being disappointed. Also,
R Shaw
#10. I also think it's possible for us to be better people tomorrow than we are today." He had no idea, of course, whether any of these things were true, in whole or in part. Still, what possible good could come of believing otherwise? -
Richard Russo
#11. Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness.
Ken Follett
#12. I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.
Al Gore
#13. If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.
Dan Pearce
#14. The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.
Alex Pareene
#15. Christians have a dual citizenship - on earth and in heaven - and our citizenship in heaven ought to make us better people here on earth.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#16. Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.
Benjamin Spock
#17. It's so hard not to enjoy this because how can you put something so golden, a girl who can barely open her eyes or her mouth - how can you put something like that in front of them and expect them to be better people?
Courtney Summers
#18. Christ knows how to minister to others perfectly. When the Savior stretches out His hands, those He touches are uplifted and become greater, stronger, and better people as a result. If we are His hands, should we not do the same?
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#19. When we inconvenience ourselves to make someone's day more enjoyable, we not only give them hope; we also become better people.
Jamie Larbi
#20. Observe and learn from stronger and better people than yours instead of laughing and pulling legs of poor and weak than yours.
Prerak Trivedi
#21. My ladsh," said Swithin, "are the besht there ish. It'sh not their fault they're up againsht better people.
Terry Pratchett
#22. Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.
Bobby Orr
#23. Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul Auster
#24. We are working to help people become better people; then this will become a better world.
Eva Burrows
#25. Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.
Ellen J. Barrier
#26. We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
Matthieu Ricard
#27. Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.
Edward Kitsis
#28. Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
Alain De Botton
#29. When we're connected to others, we become better people.
Randy Pausch
#30. We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history.
John E. Jones III
#31. If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
Orson Scott Card
#32. Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance ...
Tupac Shakur
#33. Skinner proposed that the environment had a much greater effect on the individual than previously thought. In particular, he proposed that to improve human race we need focus on creating better environments, rather than better people. Because good environments will conduce to good people.
Jose Berengueres
#34. Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and discipline and virtue are all myths invented to control you.
Marianne De Pierres
#36. For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
Queen Elizabeth II
#37. Let's face it, we're all imperfect and we're going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.
John Wooden
#38. Roarke is her everything, as she is his. It matters, I think, that these two people who came from abuse and viciousness found each other, helped make each other into better people. Love opened them to more.
Nora Roberts
#39. I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.
Desmond Tutu
#40. It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.
Dee Hock
#41. Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
Robert Genn
#42. Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.
Demi Lovato
#43. So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.
Keith Rabois
#44. I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.
Kevin Ollie
#45. For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.
Steve Erickson
#46. The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.
P.T. Barnum
#47. Pain has a purpose. It makes us stronger. More compassionate. Able to love more deeply than we thought possible. If we let it, it makes us better people.
D. Nichole King
#48. You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
Patrice Leconte
#49. I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.
Christopher Hitchens
#50. There was a shared sigh as the boys ran off behind Radley, thanking God for not killing them, and telling him how they'd be better people and do their homework from now on.
Joseph Eastwood
#51. This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.
Tom Robbins
#52. The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.
Bill Maher
#53. The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.
Ellen J. Barrier
#54. Everyone should get to experience a love like that. That kind of love that makes us better people.
R.K. Lilley
#55. It's no surprise that readers are better people. Having experienced someone else's life through abstract eyes, they've learned what it's like to leave their bodies and see the world through other frames of reference.
Anonymous
#56. Here is another paradox: We become better people only when we give up the quest to become better people. That
Charles Eisenstein
#57. From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons.
Iyanla Vanzant
#58. I think you know when two people are meant for each other when you see that they're better people together than they are when they're apart.
Jessica Knoll
#59. Each time people come into contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.
Mother Teresa
#60. It was his ability to trust," she said. "It was the way that he made good people into better people, the way that he inspired them. His crew worked because he had confidence in them - because he respected them. And, in return, they respected each other.
Brandon Sanderson
#61. People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.
Warren Buffett
#62. You build a better company by building better people.
Zig Ziglar
#63. You see, God has given us all the clues we need in a complex mystery, and we just need to figure it out. Along the way, we learn, and we become better people
Amelia C. Adams
#64. Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.
Jennifer Skiff
#65. Nobody wants a job where they don't have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they're going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.
Michael Bloomberg
#66. The future of network marketing is unlimited. There's no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it ... soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world.
Brian Tracy
#67. There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.
P. J. O'Rourke
#68. Given what we have and what we know, we ought to be a better people than we are. We ought to be more Christlike, more forgiving, more helpful and considerate to all around us.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#69. Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
Sydney J. Harris
#70. The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.
Herb Lubalin
#71. I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma
E.D. Baker
#72. Honesty was a thing that could never be a thing. In a blaze of hubris and misplaced enthusiasm, we kowtowed to it, thinking it would make us better people, but conveniently forgetting that an abstraction was incompatible with the specificity of a human's needs and wants.
Erin Bomboy
#73. Obstacles on our path are some of the tests of life. They make us stronger, better people and open up doors we had never imagined.
Mufti Ismail Menk
#74. On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Anita Loos
#75. We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
Imelda Staunton
#76. Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
#77. I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people.
Matthew De Abaitua
#79. Why did you become romantically involved with such a foul creature? ... ... ..
Because he's wonderful and sensitive and funny. Because we bring out the best in each other and are better people because of our love. Because when we're together, I feel like I understand my place in the world.
Richelle Mead
#80. Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
Ziggy Marley
#81. The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
Kathy Bates
#82. I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens.
Eduardo Paes
#83. In real life, love and hate are often only separable if we're willing to recognize our demons and choose to become better people.
John L. Monk
#84. American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country. We are higher class people." That's not what it is. America was the exception to the way human beings prior to America, most of which lived.
Rush Limbaugh
#85. Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.
Tina Fey
#86. CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.
Fabiola Gianotti
#87. The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.
George Dzundza
#88. Always remember that you have been called worse things by better people.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.
Ann Voskamp
#90. The primary purpose of coaching young athletes is to use sport to teach them to become better people.
Bruce Brown
#91. Some people think God puts difficult people in our lives for a reason, to make us better people as we sharpen ourselves on the knife of their shortcomings.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#92. This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.
Chris Cleave
#93. I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.
Eric Davis
#94. We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.
Corey Taylor
#95. It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place
because we become better people in it.
Jodi Picoult
#96. Hard times do make better people. That in the middle of difficulty lives opportunity. And that each of us is built to win - in both work and life.
Robin S. Sharma
#97. I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
Matthew Perry
#98. They should get another lawyer," he said. "Surely there are better people around. That man with the big nose - you know the one - they say that he's very good. The judges can't take their eyes off his nose, and so they always decide in his favour.
Alexander McCall Smith
#99. Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
Roger Ebert
#100. Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser
Osho
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