
Top 100 Better Than Quotes
#1. If you can do it better than me, then you do it.
Kanye West
#2. Permanence in the land of sleep is better than gold in the world of wakefulness.
Jonathan L. Howard
#3. The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.
George W. Bush
#4. You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.
Doug Stanhope
#5. I've heard the women in the Refuge talk about how sensual it is when you feed from them."
Naasir shrugged. "Cooperative food is better than noncooperative food"
[ ... ]
"But the Refuge food is too cooperative," he grumbled. "How much blood do they think I can drink?
Nalini Singh
#6. I'd gone from living alone in New York as a lowly shoe clerk to becoming a shieldmaiden with a family to come home to. It didn't get much better than that.
Amanda Carlson
#7. I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.
Simone Elkeles
#8. I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.
John Shelton Reed
#10. I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.
Felipe Esparza
#11. Just do your best," Mom said. "You can't do any better than your best.
Kim Wayans
#12. Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.
Nikki Sixx
#13. You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them
Alexandre Dumas
#14. 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
#15. Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
Michel De Montaigne
#16. There's always going to be someone who is prettier than you, better than you in some way, but everyone has that something that makes them different.
Lana Parrilla
#17. the truth may hurt initially, but it heals much better than the rigid scar caused by a lie!
Candice Dow
#18. As my creator, God knows better than I do what will truly make me happy.
Paula Hendricks
#19. Asked. "Here he comes, he'll tell you for himself much better than I can pretend to." Jasper Nettlepoint at that moment joined us, dressed in white flannel and carrying a large fan. "Well, my dear, have you decided?" his
Henry James
#20. Someone said it better than that; be true unto yourself. Self, right? No-one else. If everyone was true unto his or her self there might even be a chance of something better for us all.
Bryan Islip
#22. I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
Winona Ryder
#23. I believe that our Vuse, the digital vaping cigarette, is a game-changing product, and I believe that it satisfies smokers significantly better than anything that is on the market today.
Susan Cameron
#24. Comedy comes from pain, and no one knows that better than this woman Roseanne Barr - who was molested as a child. Uch. That poor molester. Roseanne never got over it. She felt violated. She had trust issues. She never got the candy he promised her.
Jeff Ross
#25. My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
Anthony Horowitz
#26. Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.
Noel Gallagher
#27. I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.
David Shrigley
#28. I used to be good at clothes shopping and whatnot - at least ,I think I was! - but at some point after two kids and a career that worked out better than I ever could have imagined, I looked up from my desk and realized that I wore the same three t-shirts and 15-year-old jeans every day.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#29. But I know nothing of time. I am new every day. I am born when I wake up in the morning, I grow old during the day, and I die at night when I go to sleep. It is not my fault. And I am doing so well today. I am doing so much better than I have ever done before.
Paul Auster
#30. There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?
Plato
#31. If thee thinks the spirit of God is necessarily logical, thee know Him better than I do.
Diana Gabaldon
#34. In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.
Rupert Murdoch
#35. Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#36. There's nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day at the beach.
Nicholas Sparks
#38. Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Jim Afremow
#40. I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. We fight wars. We fight for peace. We fight hunger. We love to fight. We fight and fight and fight, with our guns or mouths or money. And the planet is never one lick better than it was before us.
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people - and I might not could if I tried...
Nancy Milford
#43. I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
William Carlos Williams
#44. Some day, I suppose it's possible for someone to be a better No Limit Hold'em player than me. I doubt it, but it could happen. But, I swear to you, I don't see how anyone could ever play gin better than me.
Stu Ungar
#45. A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb
Cornelia Funke
#46. Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.
Chris Hughes
#47. General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."
John Wayne
#48. The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.
Allison Brennan
#49. Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.
Jeremy Clarkson
#50. I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire
Edward Burne-Jones
#51. I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#52. What will always be better than a man, is a
Gentleman.
Pontius Joseph
#53. Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
Lisa See
#54. We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.
John Steinbeck
#55. Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
Margaret Atwood
#56. Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.
Jason Clarke
#57. No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo
#58. I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.
Emilia Clarke
#59. One chair upon another is pornographic. Ten in a stack is aspirational. I made so many mistakes on purpose just to get them out of the way. One cannot convince another to love anything or anyone. Better than arguing is just pointing and saying Look at that. I've
Sarah Manguso
#60. A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.
Gary David Goldberg
#61. It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.
Neal A. Maxwell
#62. Ronaldinho is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, but neither are as good as Leo Messi.
Antonio Cassano
#63. My mom says Ingrid's name and I start to hum, not the melody to a song, just one drawn-out note. I know it makes me seem crazy, I know it won't make anything change, but it's better than crying, it's better than screaming, it's better than listening to what they're telling me.
Nina LaCour
#64. Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...
G.E. Moore
#65. Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#66. Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.
Mickey Rupp
#67. Cane's kisses were phenomenal. Better than chocolate, horses, and Channing Tatum rolled into one.
Rachel Harris
#68. The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.
Jose Mujica
#69. The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.
Dean Koontz
#70. I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
Christopher Lee
#71. Don't just look; see! There is always an opportunity to make something better! There is always a better us we can make better than the better we know! The true better you is the true you you can truly make better! Better your better now!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. I see you in the future and you look much better than you look right now!
Edward A. Bradley
#73. My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right.
Derrick Rose
#74. The billiard table is better than the doctor.
Mark Twain
#75. I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living
all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.
Anthony Bourdain
#76. And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it.
Gayle Forman
#77. Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Alfred A. Montapert
#78. I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.
George Woodcock
#79. I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
Aaron Boone
#80. Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I'm just doing better than what everybody projected.
Big Sean
#81. All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.
Robin S. Sharma
#83. For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#84. Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.
Max Lucado
#85. If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
Henri Matisse
#86. People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#87. But death is not always a bad outcome, you know, and a quick death can be better than a slow one.
Henry Marsh
#88. The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.
Adrian Rogers
#90. A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.
Peter Schutz
#91. And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile kindness in their love that survived through this poisonous war. Even though one of them hadn't.
Jennifer Ryan
#92. No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other way around. I blended a lot of systems I had studied over the years, Judo, wrestling, boxing, Hapkido, Kenpo, Thai Boxing, American Kickboxing, Jujitsu, Aikido.
Joe R. Lansdale
#93. Everything in its time, and timing is God's playground. Trust me, being surprised by everything is so much better than needing to control everything.
Wm. Paul Young
#94. I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
Ben Hecht
#95. Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.
Randy Anderson
#96. I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.
Elizabeth Scott
#97. It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.
Franz Kafka
#98. I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.
Michael Redhill
#99. Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.
Orson Scott Card
#100. There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.
George Santayana
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