Better Today Quotes

#1. Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee ... Give me my rapture today.

Van Morrison

#2. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."

John F. Kerry

#3. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone that unwelcome. I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals.

Mark Twain

#4. Today is the only today there will ever be, so you better make the most of it.

Helen Little

#5. Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't ... that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.

Matt Chandler

#7. Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

Ian Shoales

#8. The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

Will Christopher Baer

#9. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Douglas Adams

#10. But today is better than yesterday. And this hurt is still a hole in me, but it's a shrinking hole.

Courtney C. Stevens

#11. Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

Liberace

#12. These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

Daniel H. Wilson

#13. There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

Vance Havner

#14. If you make it a Habit to make your Today better than your Yesterday, then for sure, your Tomorrow will be better than your Today.-RVM

R.v.m.

#15. God has left me alive, so it looks like I'm needed for something ... As soon as there is a possibility for me to return, I will return and will do everything I can to make life better in Ukraine. And today, the main task is to stop the war.

Viktor Yanukovych

#16. In history people dressed much better than we do today.

Vivienne Westwood

#17. Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

Melody Beattie

#18. Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

Mata Amritanandamayi

#19. What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough ...

Brian D. McLaren

#20. Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

Jerry Saltz

#21. We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

Tom Hanks

#22. Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today's masterpiece is tomorrow's birdcage lining.

Anthony Marra

#23. Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.

C.S. Friedman

#24. As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

Samuel Wilson

#25. For today ... Do all you can, be all you can be to help better brighten the hearts of humanity!

Timothy Pina

#26. I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it's much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.

Seymour Cray

#27. Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Ronald Reagan

#28. Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.

Henry B. Eyring

#29. Today. Also, use the word motherfucker at some point. You'll feel a lot better. Trust me.

Penelope Douglas

#30. No one better say anything bad about Ian around me after today. I officially loved that son of a bitch.

Jeaniene Frost

#31. Sustainable Development is more than meeting the needs of today and the future generations; to my understanding this definition better fits sex industry.

M.F. Moonzajer

#32. Make today a gift to your future self.

Anonymous

#33. We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

Anton Chekhov

#34. People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

Karl Lagerfeld

#35. The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

Mahmoud Darwish

#36. The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

Jon Foreman

#37. Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

Elbert Hubbard

#38. It is safe to say that the majority of evangelical churches today are busy teaching their flock how to be better goats, but they are not preaching Bible-centered messages that grow religious affections.

Todd Friel

#39. Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

Henry B. Eyring

#40. Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.

Bill Vaughan

#41. PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow.

Brian L. Joiner

#42. This self-destructive behavior is becoming more and more mainstream in our society today, because we like to keep up with the Joneses. We don't consider the fact that the Joneses' kids are not going to the university, and they will not be able to retire in comfort. Life should be better than that.

Celso Cukierkorn

#43. Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.

George Papandreou

#44. I just did something on a show on UPN called 'Girlfriends' that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Christopher Darden

#45. Learn something today in order to make tomorrow a better today.

Roberto Wallace

#46. Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Will Harvey

#47. The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.

Hale Irwin

#48. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#49. I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.

Richard Branson

#50. You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really - except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

Eugene O'Neill

#51. For example, you can eat a Caesar salad and say, "Wow, I ate so healthy today." You forget there was a quarter-cup of oil in there, and all the calories are from fat. So it's better if you eat a grilled chicken breast, some steamed brown rice, and a little salad with balsamic vinegar on top.

Wolfgang Puck

#52. Access to high quality video content
essentially TV programming
has never been better than today

Lloyd Braun

#53. What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.

Mechai Viravaidya

#54. If you want to better our world tomorrow ... start empowering our children today!

Timothy Pina

#55. Today is different. Better. Safer.

Fennel Hudson

#56. Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have been better designed to prevent a child's natural learning system from operating.

Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

#57. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.

Jim Rohn

#58. You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

Richard Rohr

#59. Investing Our Time To EMPOWER Children Today ... Will Make A Better HUMANITY Tomorrow!

Timothy Pina

#60. Always remember the proverb: "This too shall pass." Your negative feelings won't last forever, there's a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you'll feel better eventually.

Paulo Coelho

#61. There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#62. The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

Tiger Woods

#63. Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

Jared Diamond

#64. Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to know would put their conscience in a terrible bind. Wilful ignorance of this kind is no better than complicity.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#65. The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS is the biggest threat to this one universal objective. UNICEF needs us all to help them change the world for children

Liam Neeson

#66. Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

Stephen Ambrose

#67. Today things are better than yesterday.

Aristophanes

#68. Because I know you live on the hope of seeing a better tomorrow, unlike the skeptics who have nothing to live for today. I would rather die with hope, than to live without any hope at all.

Nely Cab

#69. If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#70. Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.

Lorenzo Snow

#71. If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

Marjane Satrapi

#72. Today, you get better performance from a Ford Focus than a Ferrari from the mid-70s. [The Focus] is just as fast and with better fuel economy. It's fun to see supercar technology trickle down to everyday cars.

Jay Leno

#73. You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.

Natalie Cole

#74. On Dreams
Only one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today.

Vincent Lowry

#75. The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

John Humphrys

#76. Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.

Jim Beaver

#77. The most dangerous belief for any software company today is that the solution to their adoption problem lies in better software engineering.

Stephen O'Grady

#78. Challenge yourself today, to improve, for a better tomorrow than yesterday.

Vikrmn

#79. What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

John Irving

#80. From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

Junior Seau

#81. To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success
the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history
with a society that provides opportunities for all.

Malcolm Gladwell

#82. You either need to accept the past as the building blocks that brought you right up to today, or you need to be a better liar.

Lisa McInerney

#83. If we make every day better than the one before, today will be the best day yet, and the greatest days ever will await us in every tomorrow.

Wes Fesler

#84. 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

#85. I should learn from today and make tomorrow better.

Toni Sorenson

#86. People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

Tim Harford

#87. 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

#88. If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#89. Make a better life for yourself and decide today that you will only accept perceptions that are authentic to you and which support your positive growth.

Donnalynn Civello

#90. Aspire to be a better person today than you were yesterday and you will be heading in the right direction.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#91. Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.

Michael Copps

#92. Yesterday he was a prince; today he is king. I thought he was my friend, my bethrothed, but now I know better.

Victoria Aveyard

#93. You are a whole lot better today than yesterday.

Debasish Mridha

#94. The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#95. I think we have some special talents. That being said, I think it's dangerous to rely on special talents - it's better to own lots of monopolistic businesses with unregulated prices. But that's not the world today. We have made money exercising our talents and will continue to do so.

Charlie Munger

#96. It's better to let pride die today than to try and kill it tomorrow.

The Prolific Penman

#97. Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.

Steve Martin

#98. Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

Daisaku Ikeda

#99. Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

Jim Harbaugh

#100. Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.

Anthony Liccione