Top 100 Better That Quotes
#1. I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.
Peter Jackson
#3. I'm not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that's how you get better. That's how I've gotten better at everything I've ever done. Don't be too proud to ask for help.
Dave Bautista
#4. Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch one, good. If you don't ... that is even better. That mean you come out and get to try all over again.
Clare Vanderpool
#5. Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough
than lose interest.
James Poniewozik
#6. I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
Oscar Pistorius
#7. Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
Garret Dillahunt
#8. When I take my last breath, will there be a wish that I had more stuff? I'll wish for only one thing, I think. That I loved better. That I had been better at loving and not being distracted by stuff or accomplishment. This life is so short and it will soon be over. What will we use it for?
Colin Beavan
#9. It is infinitely better that the profane and loose be unmasked than to be muffled up under the veil and hood of traditional hypocrisy, which turns and dulls the very edge of all conscience either toward God or man.
Roger Williams
#10. Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.
Peter Canisius
#11. It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Honore De Balzac
#13. I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.
Alexander Gustafsson
#14. It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.
Robert Falcon Scott
#15. He was a great poet" They lamented.
No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
Lloyd Alexander
#16. 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
#17. I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.
Roberto Bolano
#18. I had a wife that did not want me to have a singular regret about chasing my dream, which helped me tremendously. I did not want to have a singular regret. I always held out hope that it was going to turn for the better. That's always what motivated me was hope.
R.A. Dickey
#19. I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
W. Somerset Maugham
#20. To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. I've done a lot of fight scenes, and I always find that it's better that they be meticulously choreographed. You want them to look as real as possible, but you don't want anyone to get hurt. So I believe in really working it out in rehearsal, and when you get to the set, just go for it 100 percent.
Holt McCallany
#22. Our ignorance of the future has been wisely ordained of Heaven. For unless man were to be like God and know everything, it is better that he should know nothing. If he knows one fact only, instead of profiting by it he will assuredly land in the soup.
John Buchan
#23. But Gwen got better that year. She seemed fine. She seemed happy, or at least not unhappier than anybody else. Who's happy?
Meg Howrey
#24. Purity, we see in the object-lesson, is NOT the one thing needful; and it is better that a life should contract many a dirt-mark, than forfeit usefulness in its efforts to remain unspotted.
William James
#25. Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
William Gilmore Simms
#26. I think it's very human, the hope that an all-encompassing love will change us into someone else, someone better. That this hope usually turns out to be false makes it no less human; the world is full of hopes far more unlikely than being transformed by love.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#28. Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
Elie Wiesel
#29. I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.
Ashley Greene
#31. i know you are in a big problem but i know very better that you will handle , You are such a great person.
Alok Dikshit
#32. I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.
Oliver
#33. If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.
Maria Sharapova
#34. Isn't it better that we send them off once and for all beneath the glow of carnival lights, with the taste of treats on our tongues, rather than invite the acrid tang of doubt, and undue longing, and the heart-stab of a freshly sundered bond?
Chang-rae Lee
#35. Let me put aside every desire, so that my heart grows used to its farthest spaces. Better that it live fully aware, in the terror of its stars, than as if protected, soothed by what is near.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#36. Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
Charles Dickens
#37. In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
William Howard Taft
#38. The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.
Lord Chesterfield
#39. Me. That's what husbands are for. And for holding onto for comfort. And to make sure that life will be better. That is my wedding vow to you,
Jo Beverley
#40. Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.
Lou Reed
#41. I never felt good enough about myself. I could be better at this, I could be better at that. I could look better. My work could be better. That whole idea that you're going to get caught, you're going to be found out as a fraud. That's one of those reasons I got up at 2:30 in the morning.
Meredith Vieira
#42. I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.
April Bloomfield
#43. It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist's sources of inspiration might bewilder them, drive them away and in that way nullify the effect of the excellent work.
Thomas Mann
#44. A lot of players know how to play the game, but they really don't know how to play the game, if you know what I mean. They can put the ball in the hoop, but I see things before they even happen. You know how a guy can make his team so much better? That's one thing I learned from watching Jordan.
LeBron James
#45. Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?
Carol Vorderman
#46. Sexual repression is conduct unbecoming a Celt." I shrugged. "Better that than having to deal with guilt ferrets.
Kevin Hearne
#47. I'm not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that's just the way things are.
S.E. Hinton
#48. I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.
Virginia Wade
#49. Things Could Be Worse And Things Could Be So Much Better - that became the game, my running commentary on the streets of Manhattan, and I played it as well as the other slobs just trying to get by.
Joshua Ferris
#50. Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.
Rosie Thomas
#51. Just as there is no technical improvement that would not hurt someone, so there is no change in public taste or morals, even for the better, that would not hurt someone.
Henry Hazlitt
#52. I never wanted anyone to have this much power over my emotions again. It was safer to keep to myself, to keep things on the surface. Things ended better that way.
Kasie West
#53. I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#54. She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.
Carol Emshwiller
#55. We grow as best we can under the circumstances given us. What good does it do to second-guess ourselves years after the fact? Better that we simply try to understand why we are as we are and then better ourselves by learning from that.
Terry Brooks
#56. It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#57. Be what you are; it is better that way.
--Dolph
Piers Anthony
#58. Were only trying to help, but you need to punish them. In a strange way, it will make them feel better. That's the way of society, you make a mistake, make restitution, learn from it, and move on. If there's no restitution, there's no learning. No consequences equals spoiled brats.
Katie Graykowski
#59. And that's the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit.
Ben Monopoli
#60. Humans should not worship other humans at all, but if they must do so it is better that the worshipped ones do not occupy any positions of political power.
Christopher Hitchens
#61. I live to die; better that than to live a lie.
Vince Staples
#62. I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.
Sam Amidon
#63. Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
Gay Talese
#64. Don't worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.
S.W. Lothian
#65. It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.
Geno Auriemma
#66. It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
Euripides
#67. Sometimes when you have a record out, you think you're going to go in at No. 1 but you go in at No. 8. So your second record has to be better. That's how I treat it.
Simon Cowell
#68. ...What makes it magic is taht we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm. But it's so easy to destroy and so much harder to make things better. that's why doing the right thing makes you stronger.
Charles De Lint
#69. Good teams focus on the task at hand. They don't care what's happened the last 13 days, they worry about today and they worry about getting better. That's what good teams do.
Mike Zimmer
#70. Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend ... "The world is better that I lived to-day."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#71. Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
John F. Kerry
#72. If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#73. It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle.
#74. Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.
Mona Simpson
#75. Better that anger should be directed into jihad abroad than into Iran-style revolution at home.
Robert Lacey
#76. There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
Samuel Johnson
#77. I liked Lost in Space," Stefan said.
"The movie or the TV series?"
"The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie," he said soberly. "It was better that way.
Patricia Briggs
#79. If you want to be contentious wait until you learn what you have to contend with. It works better that way.
Rex Stout
#80. Finally, this is better, that one do His own task as he may, even though he fail, Than take tasks not his own, though they seem good. To die performing duty is no ill; But who seeks other roads shall wander still.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
Livy
#82. Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
Patricia Heaton
#83. I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
Barbara Mertz
#84. I loved every minute of working in wardrobe. But I love being an actress so much more. I don't think I was very good in costume, so it's better that I prefer being an actress.
Katie McGrath
#85. Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
Charles Caleb Colton
#86. I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how successful, there is something I can do better. That's kind of the drive I live on.
George Karl
#87. I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.
Michel De Montaigne
#88. The documents inbox138 described a world in which money was everything- not just the means of sustaining life but the purpose of living it. ... If that was how the old world worked--if that was all they really cared about--maybe it was better that it had fallen apart. Maybe it was inevitable
Dan Wells
#89. The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. There's no way a woman could possibly resist your charm"
Dominic smiled. "Or my dick. Don't worry, I won't get it out. I don't want you all to get intimidated. and in the interest of health and safety, I think it's better that he's not unleashed.
Suzanne Wright
#91. Better that the whole world should turn against you ... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.
Guy Finley
#92. Well Kami, I told you before that I wasn't chasing you. But now ... now I am. So it's better that I know your interest isn't elsewhere.
S.L. Jennings
#93. The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That's all I ever will be, unable to be that woman in real life.
Nicole Kiefer
#94. If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
Christopher Hitchens
#95. I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.
Hosni Mubarak
#96. If I were honest, I'd say it only sort of gets better. That there's always this part of you that got carved out. It's a physical thing, I swear to God, and it's the part that swells right before you cry. Eventually you stop hoping and start to fill it up with memories.
Kathleen Hale
#97. Something important is always about to happen ... And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way.
Julia Quinn
#98. So you're the demon spawn," Finley spit out.
"Finn!" Aislinn snapped. Huh. So at least one of the Brannicks hated me. Weirdly, that made me
feel better. That was normal. And if there was one thing I knew how to deal with, it was Mean Girls.
"I actually go by Sophie.
Rachel Hawkins
#99. I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can have fun. I never spent a day where going out on a baseball field didn't make me feel better.
Doug Harvey
#100. It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth!
Yvonne Pierre
