Top 100 Better To Be Quotes
#1. I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
Daniel Woodrell
#2. It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Flannery O'Connor
#4. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
Kwame Nkrumah
#5. I think it's better to be a legend while ye're alive to enjoy it.
Mel Odom
#7. More than ever before in our nation's history, females are encouraged to assume the patriarchal mask and bury their emotional selves as deeply as their male counterparts do. Females embrace this paradigm because they feel it is better to be a dominator than to be dominated.
Bell Hooks
#9. I do remember that I was very relieved that I did not have to go into a bank with them. I had, as you recall, I had already been brought into a bank before and it was better to be sitting outside.
Patty Hearst
#10. It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.
Joan Fontaine
#12. It's better to be a dog in peace, than a man in war.
John Scalzi
#13. I've learned to feel good when
I feel good.
it's better to be driven around in a red porsche
than to own
one. the luck of the fool is
inviolate.
Charles Bukowski
#14. It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell
#15. I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.
Eric Cantona
#16. Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.
Todd Strasser
#18. ...as I have been thinking about this, I decided it might be better to be a broken man than a man who never risked breaking anything.
Douglas Wilson
#19. It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.
Joel Osteen
#21. I am kind and beautiful. I have a soul.It's better to be known for what I am not. Isn't that how the saying goes?
Rebecca Berto
#25. There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
Katherine Heigl
#26. Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.
Evangeline Lilly
#27. We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.
Seth Klarman
#30. Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure- to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten.
Michel De Montaigne
#31. T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. King Henry VIII. II.3
William Shakespeare
#32. The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
Stanley Kubrick
#34. Experience has taught me that it is always better to be well rested than to know what you are doing - Nanny Piggins
R.A. Spratt
#35. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself? I thought honesty made people strong.
Stephanie Perkins
#36. It's better to be alone and keep your dignity than to be in a relationship where you always sacrifice your self respect.
Auliq Ice
#37. Which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
Aldous Huxley
#38. One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.
Millicent Fenwick
#39. It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
Pythagoras
#40. Better to be afraid of witches and murderers than to be one.
Tabitha Morrow
#41. Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.
Karina Smirnoff
#42. All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.
J.R. Ward
#43. It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
Joan Of Arc
#44. It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
Robert A. Heinlein
#46. Machiavelli believed it was better to be feared than loved, because attachment is easily severed, but the terror of pain is ever present.
J.M. Darhower
#47. You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.
Woody Allen
#48. Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? ... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.
Epictetus
#50. It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused.
Richard Machowicz
#51. It's better to be the rooster than the feather duster.
Jimmy Spithill
#52. Better to be strong,' he [Lolo] said ... 'if you can't be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who's strong. But always better to be strong yourself.
Barack Obama
#54. I can't help but think of the phrase ' sometimes it is better to be kept in the dark than be blinded by the light.
Anna Todd
#55. It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#56. Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.
E. O. Wilson
#57. It may not quite reflect the maturity of "Thy will be done," but it is better to be an honest mess before God than a dishonest "saint.
John Ortberg
#58. Better to be tormented with memories of Ashley than Charleston accents.
Margaret Mitchell
#59. It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
John Forbes Nash
#60. Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
Laini Taylor
#61. I wish I knew I was doing this right," Cheris said, "but there's nothing to it but to move forward."
"The only unforgivable sin in war is standing still," Jedao said. "It's better to be doing the wrong thing wholeheartedly than freeze.
Yoon Ha Lee
#62. Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.
Lenny Abrahamson
#63. It's better to be poor but rich in love than rich but poor in love.
Debasish Mridha
#65. From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#66. Fisher twined his fingers with mine and when he did, the feeling was the best thing in the world, like it was always better to be this tangled up, to always have a piece of each other.
Brenna Yovanoff
#67. Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#68. Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.
William Safire
#69. It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.
Garrison Keillor
#70. It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
Steven Pressfield
#71. Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don't, right?
Dave Eggers
#72. It's better to be prepared than to get ready.
Will Smith
#73. It's much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
Natalie Goldberg
#74. If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.
Bruce Barton
#75. It's better to be true than to be cool. Be yourself. Do what you love.
Jamie Tworkowski
#76. I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.
Mick Jagger
#77. If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.
John LeFevre
#78. What I most hate is the books and films and all other stuff which all the time end in happy end, do you hate it...
It's better to be in happy and...
- After all I wanted to show the taste of the real world, a injury in father's childhood, then injury when his wife dies...
Deyth Banger
#80. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide
#81. Facing fear is better than running from it," he said.
"What if it's fear you can't beat?"
"Then it might be better to be dead," he answered.
David Baldacci
#82. It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli
Laurell K. Hamilton
#83. Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
John Ortberg
#84. If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
Gautama Buddha
#85. It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
Hippocrates
#86. Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.
Arthur C. Clarke
#87. It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.
Michelle Yeoh
#88. It's better to be hated than ignored.
G-Dragon
#89. Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.
Susan Sontag
#90. It is better to be a well-rounded Christian than a stoic, hypocrite.
Lisa Askew
#91. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
#92. I couldn't decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.
Chris Campanioni
#93. Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now
in this bright, laughing moment
and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.
Clive Barker
#94. We get a little further from perfection,
each year on the road,
I guess that's what they call character,
I guess that's just the way it goes,
better to be dusty than polished,
like some store window mannequin,
why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,
let me stain your hands
Ani DiFranco
#96. It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Margaret Fuller
#97. Blessings are better than miracles. If you live your life from one miracle to the next, you will live from crisis to crisis. It's better to be blessed with good health than to always need divine healing. God's will is for us to walk in blessing.
Andrew Wommack
#98. It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.
John G. Miller
#99. It is better to be soft and kind than strong and rude.
Debasish Mridha
#100. Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban
