Better Than Your Best Quotes

#1. You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Johann Caspar Lavater

#2. Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

Joyce Meyer

#3. Just do your best," Mom said. "You can't do any better than your best.

Kim Wayans

#4. People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.

Bono

#5. Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

Gina Greenlee

#6. Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others; failure is an opportunity, not a condemnation; effort is the key to success.

Carol S. Dweck

#7. Myself, I knew a writer - not your father - who once told me his worst day writing was better than his best day not writing.

Jane Lotter

#8. It's a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best - not a percent better or a percent worse than that.

Kai Greene

#9. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Baden Powell

#10. Talk with your daughters, Play with your sons. You need to be a better friend to them than anyone else. This society offers lots of evil friends. Before they make those kinds of friends, they need to find their best friend in you.

Nouman Ali Khan

#11. You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

Stephen Gaskin

#12. When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.

Richard Branson

#13. Striving to 'be the best' is overrated & not smart. Grow to become only 1% better than your top competitor in your chosen field(s) of expertise.

Gary Patton

#14. Hurdling is like Kung-fu. Everyone comes from a different school. And everybody says 'my Kung-fu is better than your Kung-fu.' You have to find the technique that best fits your body size.

Larry Shipp

#15. Destiny demands you do better than your supposed best.

Jack Kent Cooke

#16. Be a companion with Christ, and he will draw near unto you and be your best friend. There is no better friend than Christ.

William R. Bradford

#17. There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Tim Hansel

#18. Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#19. Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. Credit, youre jewish, your best friend is black, and your girlfriend is a cheating whore. Even if I wore gay, I'd still have it better than you.

Tucker Max

#21. Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."

Jack LaLanne

#22. It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?

Do Won Chang

#23. There is nothing better for your family than for you to be at your best, for you to be at your own peace, for you to be showing them in every way who you are, and what you stand for.

Steve Maraboli

#24. Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#25. I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

Lil' Wayne

#26. So, as I was saying, guys and girls can be friends.
Best friends.
And what's better than falling in love with your best friend?
Nothing.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#27. Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

Hugh Jackman

#28. Best of all, she waits outside the dressing room while I'm changing. Girlfriends don't do this but wives do, and if there is any better reason to get married than to have someone to hold your hand in a clothing store, I don't know what it is.

Charlie Close

#29. To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.

Toba Beta

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You'll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you'll still be better than other people's best.

Pete Holmes

#34. As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

Lyle Lovett

#35. I learned early on, the worst day chasing your dreams is better than the best day doing anything else. I

David Labrava

#36. Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Mark Twain

#37. Yet we may constantly do more in what we are than in what we do. We may serve better in the lives we live than in the best service we ever give. The memory of that should bring rest to your spirit when a bit tired, and may be disheartened because tired.

S.D. Gordon

#38. Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Anton Chekhov

#39. In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.

Bill Vaughan

#40. Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't let it be the best thing. Make sure you're a better father than this today. Make sure you're a better husband than this today. Because this goes away ... It's a game.

Mack Brown

#41. Set the tone for your day be treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to smile. Express your appreciation for them. Expect the best out of them. If you act first, you will set yourself up for success.

John C. Maxwell

#42. Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.

Dave Smalley

#43. It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.

Octavia E. Butler

#44. Perform your job better than anyone else can. That's the best job security I know.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#45. You don't read, you don't understand. You don't know what it's like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.

Atticus Shaffer

#46. You've just got to accept that your first love is your greatest, and everything else is going to be second-best. But second-best is better than nothing at all.

Amy Plum

#47. Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

Paulo Coelho

#48. If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

Isaac Newton

#49. The world needs you more than you can think of! Do your best to make this place better.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#50. Make their hate your stepping stones towards achieving something greater. This will be the best revenge you can give - by proving to people that they are wrong about you, and that you are better than they could ever imagine.

Auliq Ice

#51. In the end, the best for which one could hope was to leave the world in better straits than existed on the day of your birth; to truly have lived. And oh, how Cannan, the Captain of the Guard, had lived.

Cayla Kluver

#52. Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Julius Lester

#53. When you can't control a situation," he nodded toward his hindquarters, "your best move is to control how you feel about it. In situations like that you're almost always better off forcing vibrancy than feeling vulnerable.

Tim Tigner

#54. Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.

Julia Quinn

#55. Rather than just trying to fight the past, a better thing to do would be to invest in the new and give today and this new season of your life your best shot.

Jamie Larbi

#56. Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

John C. Maxwell

#57. You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.

T.I.

#58. How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

Dan Miller