Top 100 Better To Quotes
#1. ... but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#2. It's better to do something, even if you're attached to the results.
Frederick Lenz
#3. We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.
Mitch Daniels
#5. It is better to be hurt by the raw truth rather than to be comfortably deceived. - Anonymous
Monica Murphy
#6. It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.
Richard Sibbes
#7. If you're dining with someone who wants the same cut, it's always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you'll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat.
Tom Colicchio
#8. I try to watch as many movies as possible within a group setting instead of just in front of my laptop. It's better to watch something and chat about it with your programming peers afterward.
Tim League
#10. Tea is, in fact, a marvelous drink. To those who spurn it on the grounds of insomnia, I say that it's better to be deprived of sleep than of tea.
Soseki Natsume
#11. In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.
Honor Tracy
#12. It's better to experience love and loss than to never have at all.
Katherine Bogle
#13. I don't think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it's better to keep them to myself.
Anne Frank
#14. No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
Aristotle.
#16. It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.
Bruce Lee
#17. It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
Norm MacDonald
#18. Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
#19. It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
Confucius
#20. Was it better to get as much out of a moment as possible, knowing it could slip out from under you in a second? Did the actual experience outweigh the inevitable conclusion? I guess I had to decide if the conclusion was a broken heart, or a broken bone, in order to weigh the risk.
Rebecca Donovan
#22. A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.
Christina Romer
#23. It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.
Frederick Lenz
#24. He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#25. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
#26. The practice of baring all, analyzing every nuance embedded in a quarrel, is a surefire way to keep an argument alive. Better to establish a temporary peace and revisit the conflict later. Often, by then, both parties have decided the issue isn't worth the relationship.
Sue Grafton
#27. She's liked you since chemistry last semester," Carmel says, scowling.
"Then you should have told her what an ass I am. Made me sound like a moronic jerk."
"Better to let her see it for herself.
Kendare Blake
#28. I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.
Niecy Nash
#29. It is better to experience temporary discomfort to achieve the dream, than permanent comfort without any fulfillment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#31. From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#32. How better to show your respect for another person's thoughts than by silence? Is it polite to cover those thoughts with your own ideas? What is polite about that?
Sue Harrison
#33. Better to live in doubt than to die in certainty.
Ira Levin
#34. It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
Carson McCullers
#35. I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
Emmanuelle Beart
#36. Every life contains the seed of death, he had explained to Tin Win repeatedly in those first years of their friendship. Death, like birth, was a part of life that no one could escape. It was senseless to resist it. Far better to accept it as natural than to fear it.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#37. Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair
#39. What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?
Vaclav Havel
#40. Better to regret actions you have taken than to regret not having had the courage to take them in the first place.
Holly Chamberlin
#41. Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico.
Paul Bloom
#43. Lesson learned: when people are used to your resting-bitch face, it's just better to stick to it.
M.P. Tanner
#44. I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
Charles Spurgeon
#45. It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.
Hedley Bull
#46. It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"
Robbie Amell
#47. It's better to be passionate about beautiful women than gay men.
Silvio Berlusconi
#48. You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#49. Better to be in trouble with Christ, than in peace without him.
Richard Sibbes
#50. I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
Taylor Schilling
#51. It's better to be a good person than a famous person.
Jenny Holzer
#52. Six o'clock means very little to a three-year-old. It works better to say "after dinner," or "as soon as the baby takes her morning nap.
Joanna Faber
#53. Shellfish is better to buy live. In the U.S., because we eat oysters and clams raw, it is very important that they are alive before we prepare them. It's important to look for a closed shell. If a clam is alive, the shell will be closed. Never buy clams if the shell is open.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#54. The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.
Ram Dass
#55. I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
H.P. Lovecraft
#56. It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful ...
Tom Robbins
#57. While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#58. There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.
Mary Ellen Mark
#59. As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.
Jessica Biel
#60. He darted a look at the uncovered basket behind me, saw what I was eating, and glared at me. "That's appalling," he said.
"They're wonderful!" I said. "They're all coming ripe."
"All the better to turn you into a tree," he said.
"I don't want to be a tree yet," I said.
Naomi Novik
#61. It is better to turn your back on bad friends than for God to turn His back on you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#62. It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!
Dan Jacobs
#63. It is better to be honourable than be honoured.
Shiv Khera
#64. To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
Albert Einstein
#65. Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#66. My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
Natasha Josefowitz
#67. It is better to travel on the rough right road than smooth wrong way.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#68. It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.
Lynn Flewelling
#69. When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
Chris Rock
#70. She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.
Emily Giffin
#71. Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.
Martha Stewart
#72. Better to play fair for a life of hate than cheat for a life of love
Holly Bodger
#73. I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#74. In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.
William M. Daley
#76. Be intelligent, but know it is better to be kind than smart.
Bryant McGill
#77. People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.
Madonna Ciccone
#78. It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
Fridtjof Nansen
#79. When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's better to work alone.
Peter Higgs
#80. Oh, well, she decided as her eyes began to close, it is better to love foolishly than to hate bitterly. I hope I am wiser than I was and more kind.
Carla Kelly
#81. Sometimes, it's better to leave some questions
unanswered." (TSoC) - H. El-Tahwagi
H. El-Tahwagi
#82. Better to be a guarded person than an open book
RJ Heaton
#83. My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
Sophia Loren
#84. But if being on the level didn't shield you from pain, maybe it was better to be up in the clouds.
Julian Barnes
#85. It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.
Scott Weiland
#87. Mama always used to say it's better to choke on a bitter truth than savor a honeycake lie.
C.L. Wilson
#88. Life had already taught Stephen one thing, and that was that never must human beings be allowed to suspect that a creature fears them. The fear of the one is a spur to the many, for the primitive hunting instinct dies hard -- it is better to face a hostile world than to turn one's back for a moment.
Radclyffe Hall
#89. It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
#91. The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
Tariq Ramadan
#92. It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year.
Joey Green
#93. It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
Lyman Abbott
#94. Overcommunicate. It's better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear.
Alex Irvine
#95. It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.
Chanakya
#96. It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
Neal A. Maxwell
#97. Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
Jennifer E. Smith
#98. People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with sheep who don't say anything at all.
Paulo Coelho
#99. It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#100. Never give up.Never give up on anything.
Never stop trying. It better to try and fail than never trying. All the experiences are necessary. It will prepare you for the great success which comes unexpected.
Lailah Gifty Akita
