Top 100 Better Than Quotes

#1. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Joyce Meyer

Better Than Quotes #88
#2. It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.

Dennis E. Adonis

Better Than Quotes #232
#3. Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on.

Katie Aselton

Better Than Quotes #262
#4. Isn't it better when people are pleasantly surprised rather than mildly disappointed by that which is you?

Stacey Turis

Better Than Quotes #522
#5. Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Ann Patchett

Better Than Quotes #729
#6. I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

William Shakespeare

Better Than Quotes #841
#7. HIM: I should have known better than to fall for a scientist. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta. HER: Is it a crime to be biologically relevant? She

Jodi Picoult

Better Than Quotes #966
#8. I guess at the end of the day it's better to have nothing with the right person than to have everything with the wrong person, isn't it?
She was absolutely right about that.

Jay Crownover

Better Than Quotes #1065
#9. You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...

Ben Horowitz

Better Than Quotes #1129
#10. But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know.

J.A. Huss

Better Than Quotes #1184
#11. Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick ... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

Rodrigo Rato

Better Than Quotes #1290
#12. i don't take breaks. you're either with me or you lose me to someone better than you. i refuse to give you a pass to freely fuck someone else then return to me when you're tired of being fucked over..

R H Sin

Better Than Quotes #1486
#13. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them.

Michelle Erickson

Better Than Quotes #1508
#14. It is better to be a lender than a spender.

Jim Rohn

Better Than Quotes #1612
#15. Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.

Frederick Buechner

Better Than Quotes #1728
#16. Keep moving. Have a goal, One day you will arrive at a place that is better than the place where you were, even if it is only in your head.

Linda Bloodworth Thomason

Better Than Quotes #1738
#17. 22And Samuel said, w Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, x to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Anonymous

Better Than Quotes #2426
#18. Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

James A. Michener

Better Than Quotes #2696
#19. Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Better Than Quotes #2719
#20. I actually remember my grandfather better as a woman than as a man.

John Irving

Better Than Quotes #2908
#21. You might think you're a good liar, but you're not. I'm better at this than you are. Your professional lying days were limited to junkies and whores, but I routinely lie to Congress . . . Well, never mind. I suppose we're not that different after all.

Larry Correia

Better Than Quotes #3081
#22. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."

John F. Kerry

Better Than Quotes #3440
#23. I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

Joan Cusack

Better Than Quotes #3709
#24. Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Idries Shah

Better Than Quotes #3887
#25. My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

Julie Chen

Better Than Quotes #4106
#26. If we don't see to it that our children turn out better than we did, what will become of the world?

Esther M. Friesner

Better Than Quotes #4130
#27. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!

Charles Dickens

Better Than Quotes #4168
#28. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...

J.K. Rowling

Better Than Quotes #4191
#29. There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

Selma Lagerlof

Better Than Quotes #4324
#30. 6One hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind.

Anonymous

Better Than Quotes #4819
#31. Listen to me. I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn't say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the try.

Eric Taylor

Better Than Quotes #4833
#32. In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.

Wayne Dyer

Better Than Quotes #4839
#33. A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

Laini Taylor

Better Than Quotes #4840
#34. Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

Maya Angelou

Better Than Quotes #5198
#35. I liked beginnings better than endings.

Kim Harrison

Better Than Quotes #5299
#36. An army isn't made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.

Bernard Cornwell

Better Than Quotes #5780
#37. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

Bill Hicks

Better Than Quotes #5803
#38. You're right. Everyone in this room with a pulse is starting to smell really good. Okay. Back in the box, better safe than sorry.

Jeaniene Frost

Better Than Quotes #6046
#39. Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

L. Ron Hubbard

Better Than Quotes #6131
#40. Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

David Limbaugh

Better Than Quotes #6243
#41. There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Better Than Quotes #6306
#42. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more than you did before.

J.D. Robb

Better Than Quotes #6399
#43. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

Jamie Smith

Better Than Quotes #6413
#44. I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [ ... ] maybe it's better.

Heather Anastasiu

Better Than Quotes #6523
#45. The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.

Isaac Asimov

Better Than Quotes #6731
#46. Everyone is alien. And even when you are in love with someone, even when you think you know them better than you know yourself; even when you think you know everything about them and they you, and you live in each other's souls.

Even then you know nothing about them at all.

Jenny Colgan

Better Than Quotes #6809
#47. It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

Marianne Williamson

Better Than Quotes #7214
#48. There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Carl Sagan

Better Than Quotes #7336
#49. Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Better Than Quotes #7463
#50. Her parents had gone from a couple who would be different, who would be better than anyone, who were determined to be better than most, to a couple who would be different because they were worse.

Lorrie Moore

Better Than Quotes #7761
#51. Detroit, the heart of the country ... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

Kristen Bell

Better Than Quotes #7797
#52. In many ways, Tucker Carlson's a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late Andrew Breitbart, to name two of his contemporaries with a much larger following.

Alex Pareene

Better Than Quotes #8250
#53. Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'

Dennis Hull

Better Than Quotes #8258
#54. It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I'm just a number. I'm a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. I'm seen as crazy or insane, but it doesn't matter. I know I am bigger than my suffering.

Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

Better Than Quotes #8388
#55. Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

Robert Charles Wilson

Better Than Quotes #8468
#56. What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.

JD Era

Better Than Quotes #8481
#57. No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

Mary Todd Lincoln

Better Than Quotes #8570
#58. I miss my dog."
...
"What was his name again?"
"Mouse."
"That was very unkind of you."
"Naming him mouse?"
"Isn't he a greyhound?"
"I could have named hum Turtle."
"Frederick!" ...
"It's better than Frederic," Annabel said, "Good heavens, that's my brother's name.

Julia Quinn

Better Than Quotes #8690
#59. Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Stephen Hawking

Better Than Quotes #8692
#60. But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Ransom Riggs

Better Than Quotes #8862
#61. There never was an overseer on the whole plantation. The oldest colored man always looked after the niggers. We niggers lived better than the niggers on the other plantations.

Norman R. Yetman

Better Than Quotes #8946
#62. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Joseph Addison

Better Than Quotes #9313
#63. I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

Liev Schreiber

Better Than Quotes #9330
#64. Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

James Williams

Better Than Quotes #9382
#65. A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

Jessica Alba

Better Than Quotes #9452
#66. It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

John Flavel

Better Than Quotes #9466
#67. God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

William Penn

Better Than Quotes #9558
#68. One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.

Kate Williams

Better Than Quotes #9849
#69. Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

Sam Walton

Better Than Quotes #9902
#70. For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the embodiment of all my hatred, could act like a suture.

J.A. London

Better Than Quotes #9934
#71. Fine." Patrick muttered without confidence. "Anything is better than waiting around here." "Time for a little family reunion." Johnny remarked. At the agreement, the four trekked the rest of the way down the empty alley. As he passed the final building Patrick peered

Brendan Walsh

Better Than Quotes #10132
#72. Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

Xenophanes

Better Than Quotes #10522
#73. Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

Steve Ells

Better Than Quotes #10860
#74. I will make wherever I am my home. Or I'll have no home at all. Either is better than living in a past and future where I don't belong

Kiersten White

Better Than Quotes #11558
#75. There was tremendous affection in Billy's eyes, or at least they held a tremendous offer of affection, a tremendous willingness to find whomever he was talking to bright and witty and better than most

Alice McDermott

Better Than Quotes #11709
#76. But sweat is the kindest creature of the three - far better than philosophy, as a cure for ill thoughts.

C.S. Lewis

Better Than Quotes #11794
#77. The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it.

Bruce Lee

Better Than Quotes #11801
#78. She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband.

Stephen King

Better Than Quotes #11875
#79. You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Anthony Bourdain

Better Than Quotes #12008
#80. One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

Mohsin Hamid

Better Than Quotes #12157
#81. I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

Ellen Glasgow

Better Than Quotes #12618
#82. Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.

Gautama Buddha

Better Than Quotes #12994
#83. Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren't many things better than those two combined.

Dianna Agron

Better Than Quotes #13334
#84. Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

Linwood Barclay

Better Than Quotes #13510
#85. The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.

George Washington

Better Than Quotes #13593
#86. It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

Albert Camus

Better Than Quotes #13764
#87. Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Sharon Salzberg

Better Than Quotes #13788
#88. I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.

Steven Aitchison

Better Than Quotes #13801
#89. It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

Stevie Smith

Better Than Quotes #14627
#90. Look at us. A line of symmetry. Two halves of a whole. Two peas in a pod. A pair of queens. Though your card, I must observe, has aged better than mine, which has been played too often.

Erika Robuck

Better Than Quotes #14640
#91. If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

William Feather

Better Than Quotes #14988
#92. A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.

Thucydides

Better Than Quotes #15329
#93. It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight

Carlos E. Asay

Better Than Quotes #15335
#94. What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.

Steve Earle

Better Than Quotes #15487
#95. Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Better Than Quotes #15832
#96. I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Aron Ralston

Better Than Quotes #15970
#97. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Mark McCormack

Better Than Quotes #16221
#98. The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two ... the Yanks have four.

Keith Hernandez

Better Than Quotes #16332
#99. A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Ray Kurzweil

Better Than Quotes #16459
#100. The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.

Leonard Read

Better Than Quotes #16719

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