Top 100 Better Than Someone Quotes
#1. Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.
C.S. Lewis
#2. ...when you start to feel like you are better than someone else, you should probably stick your head in a toilet because at that moment your thoughts are crap.
Ellen Potter
#3. Everybody loves a good sob story, so long as it's not their story.
I don't know why. I'm not sure if people honestly care about other people or they just want a way to confirm that they've got it better than someone else.
John David Anderson
#4. Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Ted Williams
#5. The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.
Kevin McCarthy
#6. Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else. If you are in the eighth grade you're not better than someone who is in the fourth grade.
Frederick Lenz
#7. You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.
John Wooden
#8. Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.
Nathaniel Branden
#9. What's the point of being better than someone else?
Noam Chomsky
#10. If you assume you are better than someone,
you make yourself relies on that assumption.
Toba Beta
#11. Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
William, Saroyan
#12. It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.
Kano Jigoro
#13. We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#14. The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.
Dillon Burroughs
#15. Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
John Wooden
#16. If you know who you are, you do not need to consider yourself to be worse or better than someone else
Sunday Adelaja
#17. I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.
Billy Bob Thornton
#18. Living your life through Gratitude, is not one of comparing how you are better than someone else; or Gratitude only for what you own or obtain or achieve. Living your life through Gratitude, is seeing that the world would be missing something very valuable if you were not in it.
Sumner Davenport
#19. Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.
Wanda Sykes
#20. The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else's children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.
Aberjhani
#21. You'll either think yourself worse than someone else, or better than someone else. Neither of these is good. Stop comparing. - Rick Warren
Pat Williams
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
John Ruskin
#27. It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself
Jack London
#28. It's very unique. When you have someone who's lucky to get a minute in a game come up and tell you how you can be better when he's two years older than you, it's such a selfless act. Everyone is willing to tell you how to get better.
Christopher Page
#29. No good coming from the truth? Knowing the truth is always good. And better that it's us discovering it than someone else, right?
Hugh Howey
#30. There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.
Alanis Morissette
#31. When your girlfriend broke your heart, don't even say a word, just smile because she gives you the opportunity to find someone better than her.
Werley Nortreus
#32. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
Seth Godin
#33. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.
Kemi Sogunle
#34. They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.
Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.
Nova Ren Suma
#35. Because going through a hard life with someone else is better than going through an easy life alone.
Jesse Eisenberg
#36. Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.
James Cromwell
#37. No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
Madonna Ciccone
#38. Someone who would bear my shock, reflect back my outrage, so I could see it better, feel more than this electric numbness.
Jennie Fields
#39. A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
Sabine Lisicki
#40. It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
Claude Monet
#41. People don't care what really happened - the truth - they care about what makes them feel better, what puts them higher on the scorecard than someone else - even if it's a lie.
Katie McGarry
#42. Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don't love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#43. For I've finally realized, that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, Love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.
Gloria Estefan
#44. One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.
A.M. Riley
#45. Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.
Warren Buffett
#46. Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.
Paul Bloom
#47. There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
Pat Summitt
#48. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.
McCall Hoyle
#49. I can't think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you,
Than to live and love life more without them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#50. The world was created by someone
more powerful than we are.
We are here to make it better
or worse.
Vesna Dencic
#51. When in doubt, just read something written by someone crazier than you are. Pretty much always makes me feel better." -Jill
Lynn Red
#52. There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don't help people who don't have better values than you do.
Robert Fulghum
#53. I rather spend every Sunday of my life hanging off a cliff to rescue someone than spend one more time sitting in a pew next to hypocrites that talk about what they will do to better themselves and the world when they get around to it.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work no better than wishes on stars.
Erin Morgenstern
#55. I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.
Frank Welker
#56. Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
Paulo Coelho
#57. Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do
Jodi Picoult
#58. A pair of great heels was much more satisfying than a man. They lasted longer, and better yet, they didn't leave me for someone prettier.
Cindi Madsen
#59. Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.
Theophilus London
#60. Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
David Baldacci
#61. He knows how to make me laugh & sometimes there's no better way to love someone than that.
Josh James Riebock
#62. I miss having a villain. Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely the better.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#63. The replacement of corporate heads is far more motivated by the need to bring in someone who is not invested in the past than to get somebody who is a better manager or a better leader in other ways.
Andrew S. Grove
#64. If I could find someone to blame, perhaps I could get angry. Anything would be better than this sadness, this sense of regret for events that were never mine.
Luke Davies
#65. We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us
Ajahn Brahm
#66. I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
Colin Farrell
#67. Well, yeah, staying together for love is better than staying together because of a piece of paper. The paper is the prison. Making the choice to stay with someone without the prison feels more like true love to me.
L. H. Cosway
#68. It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
Scott Westerfeld
#69. We may reject someone because we think we are better than them, or we may reject someone because we are angry at them. The difference between healthy boundaries and rejection is the condition of our heart and why we are placing space between us and the other person.
Heather Bixler
#70. You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.
Epictetus
#71. The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.
Howie Carr
#72. It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.
Sudhir Kakar
#73. Girl, you grew up with Beau. You should know better than that. He ain't a dummy. Besides, someone'll tell him, and when they do, all hell's gonna break loose
Abbi Glines
#74. You undo me, Savannah. Every time I look at you, I feel like a teenager. I can't stop thinking about you, or wanting to touch you. I've never wanted to kiss someone so badly or so often. It's overwhelming to be so thoroughly captivated by someone so much better than me. And you are better than me.
Ayden K. Morgen
#75. Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. you can find better than me, worst than me. But you'll never find someone exactly like me.
Angie
#77. I'm actually familiar with someone, and that person's familiar with me, and that feels better than I ever thought it would.
Charlotte Stein
#78. It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
John Cusack
#79. You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
Plato
#80. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.
Jeanette Winterson
#81. Sometimes the memory of someone is better than the reality of them.
Steve Maraboli
#82. That's the risk in working to be a dangerous person," she said. "There's always the chance you'll run into someone who's better at it than you.
Scott Hawkins
#83. What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
Diane Setterfield
#84. Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.
Robert Breault
#85. If you throw in your towel, someone may pick it up and use it better than you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#86. Just for today, smile a little more. Just for today, ask someone how he or she is really doing. Just for today, remember, while some may have it better than you do, there are others whom definitely have it worse than you! Just for today, just let go, just for today ... .
James A. Murphy
#87. And if someone dies by my hand, I won't lie to myself by believing I'm better than that.
Quoleena Sbrocca
#88. Giving someone a piece of your soul is better than giving a piece of your heart. Because souls are eternal.
Helen Boswell
#89. The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.
Norris Church Mailer
#90. But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.
James Baldwin
#91. The fact of the matter is that people who have a strong desire to win, to be the best at what they do, are more likely to reach their full potential than someone who says, "I don't care if I win or lose, I just want to get better.
Stan Beecham
#92. For guys and girls equally . . . there's just so many people. And there's someone around the corner or uptown or downtown who you might like just a fraction better than the person who's across from you right now.
Aziz Ansari
#93. The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.
Rick Riordan
#94. Dreaming's shit, but dying's worse; and watching someone die, that comes somewhere between the two, I guess. It ain't good, but it's got to be better than the other thing, better than doing it yourself. Hasn't it?
Chaz Brenchley
#96. If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.
Jason Behr
#97. When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: 'Why did success pass me by?'
Akhil Sharma
#98. The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.
Leo Szilard
#99. It tastes better than a rock." Allie tossed back the quarter inch Harper had given her in a single swallow, then made a face. "Oh, God. No it doesn't. This is piss. Like drinking gasoline after someone stirred it with a Butterfinger. Or like a banana smoothie that went rotten. Horrible." "You
Joe Hill
#100. It wasn't logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear. It was more interesting wondering if someone did or didn't like country music than knowing one way or the other.
Liane Moriarty
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