Top 100 Better Than Ever Quotes
#1. I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.
Aron Ralston
#2. Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.
Sarah Siddons
#3. The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.
Hale Irwin
#4. People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.
Natalia Makarova
#5. Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved'st him better / Than ever thou loved'st Cassius.
William Shakespeare
#6. While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible.
Tim Cook
#7. As she lay awake, she reminded herself that she was beating the depression; she was winning her life back. She had survived, and now she was going to be better than ever before.
Jonathan Rottenberg
#8. When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.
Andy Pettitte
#9. The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.
David Cameron
#10. I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
Barry Zito
#11. My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
Gary Bettman
#12. Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.
James Hillman
#13. I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!
Tony Visconti
#14. It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.
James A. Michener
#15. I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#16. I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.
Graham Nash
#17. There was no bombing of the U.S. mainland, no civilian casualties, no destruction of millions of homes. Indeed, while the standard of living plummeted for the vast majority of Britons during the war, many if not most Americans lived better than ever before.
Lynne Olson
#18. Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
Marshall McLuhan
#19. Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains - do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.
Henry Ford
#20. Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out ... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy.
Aimee Mann
#21. Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.
Eydie Gorme
#22. I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what.
Ralph Stanley
#23. I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
Steve Lacy
#24. Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.
Robert Reich
#26. We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.
Anthony Kiedis
#27. I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it ended up - the experience and, I believe, the film - better than I could ever have hoped for.
Kiefer Sutherland
#28. I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.
Cameron Diaz
#29. he had sixty thousand as good soldiers as ever trod the earth; better than any European soldiers, because they not only worked like a machine but the machine thought. European armies know very little what they are fighting for, and care less.
Ulysses S. Grant
#30. I've heard it said that we are the sum total of every choice we've ever made. I don't think anyone could be a better example of that than I am.
Inglath Cooper
#31. There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
Euripides
#32. I'm not a person who believes that Broadway is the only place. I think there's lots of work that goes on outside of Broadway and outside of New York that's better than anything Broadway has ever seen. But, it's historically the place. It's one of the centers of the universe, in many ways.
Billy Porter
#33. Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.
Hugh Hood
#34. Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.
Jason Bateman
#35. I don't know that you ever get over this kind of loss. The fact that Chris is gone is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.
Jon Krakauer
#36. We are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
May Sarton
#37. My father wants to take your faorite song and play it better than you've ever heard.
I want to take your least favorite song, and play it so good that you like it.
Jason Reitman
#38. HAPA was like mint. You could rip it up, and six months later, it was back, healthier than ever. Mint smelled better, though, and you could make juleps out of it. I don't know what I could make out of HAPA. Compost, maybe.
Kim Harrison
#39. ... when we really connect with who God is ... we will find He is better than anything we could ever imagine ...
Shelley Hitz
#40. If another girl ever steals your man, there's no better revenge than letting her keep him. REAL MEN CAN'T BE STOLEN.
Wiz Khalifa
#41. The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.
Rex Stout
#42. Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?
Sherman Alexie
#43. I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Samuel Beckett
#44. I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.
Mickey Sumner
#45. We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.
Murray Leinster
#46. My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
Betty Cuthbert
#47. I sometimes think I know you entirely," I said. "You know me better than anyone ever has," Susan said. "And yet you're quite secretive," I said. "You surprise me often.
Robert B. Parker
#48. It is all about the individual. And we can all become a better world if we become better, more loving individuals ourselves. There is no other way that will ever work better than love.
Dan Pearce
#49. No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
Honore De Balzac
#50. People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before.
Richard M. Daley
#51. But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Ron White
#52. His love, his faith in me, his belief that I can be as strong and brave as he is ... The way he makes me feel and think and try harder than I've ever tried ... All of it, all of him, is better than anything else.
Stacey Jay
#53. People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.
Zach Braff
#54. Nothing is ever as it seems but sometimes it leads to a better outcome than you could possibly have dreamed.
Truth Devour
#55. Better than I was, more than I am
And all of this happen by taking your hand
And who I am now is who I wanted to be
And now that we're together
I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free
Tim McGraw
#56. Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.
Hugh Hood
#57. I am not beautiful and I am sarcastic and I believe I am better than most in this town and that is why I am a thirty-six-year-old orphan with no husband and why no man in Spring City has ever even held my hand.
Kaitlyn Greenidge
#58. Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Bonnie Blair
#59. I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.
Mike Mills
#60. We are more powerful, more knowledgeable, better prepared than we think we ever are.
Joe Navarro
#61. Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted it to, doesn't mean the future can't be better than you ever imagined.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#62. Grief is better than happiness, because in grief a person draws close to God. Your wings open. A tent is set up in the desert where God can visit you. Wealth that arrives in grief is what we spend in joy. The soul is greater than anything you ever lost.
Bahauddin
#63. I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.
Tina Fey
#64. The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#65. Even now, ten states away and half done with her, this Neal still thought she was better that he deserved. More than he'd ever expected life would give him.
Rainbow Rowell
#66. If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.
Ruth Reichl
#67. Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.
Dave Morris
#68. Ugh! Why couldn't anyone ever trust her? She wasn't a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead than living a cold, unfeeling life where she misered up all her feelings and possessions.' (Sunshine)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#69. Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.
Chris Witty
#70. My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".
Saroo Brierley
#71. Today you are lifted higher. Understand that you can go further and be better than you ever thought possible. Start by saying yes to all good things. Doors will open for you filled with unlimited opportunities.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#72. I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#73. If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.
Billie Burke
#74. 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
#75. I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since.
Michelle Rodriguez
#76. There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.
George Foreman
#77. Every kid dreams of playing in the NFL or MLB and I was that 27-year-old that dreamed of fighting in the UFC. It was kind of surreal to see that I have actually accomplished what I set out to do. It's better than I could have ever imagined.
Charlie Brenneman
#78. I'm an 18-years thriver, I call myself, not a survivor, because I feel like I'm in thriving my life even better than I ever have, and I want to encourage other women that are going through this journey that here I am.
Olivia Newton-John
#79. But I can't stand the way you make me feel so good, like, better than I ever felt, and then you tear it all away, like deep down, you don't want me to be happy.
Caroline Kepnes
#80. Because of the Affordable Care Act, millions of Americans finally have the security that comes from quality, affordable health coverage. And, millions more have better, more reliable coverage than ever before.
Todd Park
#81. I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.
George Shearing
#82. Liege," I said deferentially. "She's more obsequious to you than she ever has been to me," Ethan observed with a tilted eyebrow. "Better leadership skills," Malik said with a smile,
Chloe Neill
#83. I just want to tell her that I'm sorry, Wallow says softly. He doesn't know that I'm awake. He's talking to himself, or maybe to the ocean. There's not a trace of fear in his voice. And it's clear then that Wallow is a better brother than I could ever hope to be.
Karen Russell
#84. She smiled, content in knowing no one had ever loved her as much as Lucas, and now she knew why. Because no one could love her more, or better, than the demon king.
J.L. Sheppard
#85. You've already given me better than I've ever had.
Lisa Kessler
#86. Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
Bell Hooks
#87. The terrible trade deals that Bernie [Sanders] was so vehemently against - and he was right on that - will be taken care of, far better than anyone ever thought possible. That's what I do. We are going to have fantastic trade deals.
Donald Trump
#88. The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
Noam Chomsky
#89. Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were.
Larry McMurtry
#90. I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
Shawn Johnson
#91. Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#92. It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
Euripides
#93. It is time to show the whole world that America is back - bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
Donald Trump
#94. Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.
Louise Fresco
#95. Far better die, she said. She took in her hand a casket which held herbs for killing, but as she sat there with it, she thought of life and the delightful things that are in the world; and the sun seemed sweeter than ever before.
Edith Hamilton
#96. Staying positive in a negative world will not only better your life but will also change it in more ways than you can ever imagine.
Timothy Pina
#97. Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting. Constant and ever-changing. It was summer.
Jenny Han
#98. Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.
Jacque Fresco
#99. I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.
Barbara Kingsolver
#100. If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
Taron Egerton
