Do Something Better Quotes

#1. Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

Martin Yan

#2. If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.

Hortense Canady

#3. It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

Natalia Makarova

#4. I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.

Patti Smith

#5. In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

Desmond Tutu

#6. You can always have it better. If you try ... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

Alex Kapranos

#7. You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Ira Glass

#8. If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

John Carmack

#9. The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

Milan Kundera

#10. Tell you what," he said, noticing my stare. "I know you can't get a license, but I might be able to do something better."
"What?"
He smiled. "How would you like to come to school with me tomorrow and see a real, live locker?"
I'm pretty sure I squealed.

Kiersten White

#11. The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

Booker T. Washington

#12. I'll never understand why people go to movie theaters to have conversations. Going to the movies to talk is like going to a restaurant to cook. The idea is that you have paid your money to have someone do something better than you can do it yourself.

Rita Rudner

#13. That man is idle who can do something better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.

Sri Chinmoy

#15. We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Maria Mitchell

#16. The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.

Orison Swett Marden

#17. Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#18. Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

Helen Gurley Brown

#19. You look back and you always think you can probably do something better.

Tommy Haas

#20. I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

George Shearing

#21. The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

Jay Roach

#22. I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

Drew Carey

#23. If you want to do something better, do it with profound love.

Debasish Mridha

#24. The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

Christopher Cross

#25. There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

Mark Zuckerberg

#26. Lord, please do this ... or do something better!

Priscilla Shirer

#27. Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.

Lewis Carroll

#28. When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

Susan Orlean

#29. Oh, God," Wilhelm prayed, "Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy.

Saul Bellow

#30. If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

Jonathan Ive

#31. But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success.

Alice Koller

#32. I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

Nan Goldin

#33. The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#34. I love dressing up. But I'm very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I'll choose something as quickly as possible and that's that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun.

Helen McCrory

#35. I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s
t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Rosanne Cash

#36. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Mark McCormack

#37. If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.

William Allen White

#38. If you want something done, you sure as hell better do it yourself.

Rachel Van Dyken

#39. In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

Brian P. Cleary

#40. Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you.

Yoshitaka Amano

#41. If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

Ashly Lorenzana

#42. Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

Richard King

#43. Whatever you do, stay focused. Because any stuff is not going to last forever. Once you get a show at something, you gotta roll with it. You can't sit on your ass. You better keep working. You better stay motivated.

Juicy J

#44. If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.

Barack Obama

#45. I want to inspire people to be better, to do better, to dance better, and I want to help to grow this next generation. That's something that's really, really important to me, and I just want to be freaking good at everything I do.

Vivian Nixon

#46. Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Liberace

#48. No-one can do everything for the environment, but every-one can do something to make a better world.

Arron Wood

#49. I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

Ernest Hemingway,

#50. I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

Viggo Mortensen

#51. I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a fishery manager. In hindsight, I think acting could be a better route.

Tom Felton

#52. The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale Turner

#53. 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

#54. Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Randy Pausch

#55. For generations, Americans have expected something new and better in their lives with every passing day - something that will make life a little more fun to live and a little more enlightening to behold. Exploration accomplishes this naturally. All we need to do is wake up to this fact.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#56. Life becomes so unfair when you don't get what others do. But don't worry, God has decided something better for you.

Vj Nadar

#57. People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.

Elise Andrew

#58. Self-care isn't something that we fit in when we can. It needs to be a priority in our lives, because when we take care of ourselves, we can do a much better job caring for those that we love. CHAPTER

Ali Katz

#59. It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.

Auliq Ice

#60. I'll tell you something else too; by the time we're through we shall have had all we can stand of this North woman. I wouldn't mind betting she thinks we have nothing better to do than run around in circles while she gets on with this three-act problem play of hers.

Georgette Heyer

#61. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.

Deepak Chopra

#62. The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a good beef sandwich. Still it was plentiful, even if you did have to pick your way through half of it to get to something recognizable.

Nora Roberts

#63. I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.

Judith Hill

#64. If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

Don Meyer

#65. When I use weed creatively, I'm much better at drawing or making something or playing music. But what I do for a living is mostly performing as an actor or writing, and for those things I need to have my faculties sharp.

Nick Offerman

#66. We're going to go to something called a restaurant.Cody explains from the back seat of the car that it's what people do when they don't want to cook at home. Or when they want better food than what their mother can make.

Jessica Brody

#67. I would love to do something for TV ... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.

Stephen Daldry

#68. If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

Harri Holkeri

#69. There's nothing that feels better than to do something nice for somebody. I mean nothing feels better.

Wayne Dyer

#70. I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say "You don't need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now."

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#71. Do you remember back when you felt you could actually do something to make the world better?" "You're talking to the wrong man. I work for central government, remember? Actually doing something is the mistake we're trained to avoid.

Chris Cleave

#72. Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

Dave Pelzer

#73. The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

David Galenson

#74. In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

Emile M. Cioran

#75. If you can run around the corner and say hello to someone do that instead of emailing. It's always more rewarding; the connection is always more authentic. If you've got something to say and you can say it someone's face, it's so much better, healthier.

Tom Hiddleston

#76. When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

Conan O'Brien

#77. I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

Jerome Groopman

#78. Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience.

Logan Green

#79. For me to simply tell you to find your life's purpose, would only worsen your anxiety, not make it better. But that's not what I want you to do. I simply want you to realise that there is something to be found. That your calling is still out there, and that's why you might be unhappy.

S.R. Crawford

#80. A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.

Morris Chestnut

#81. Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.

Wallace D. Wattles

#82. 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don't want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don't.
Write every day.
Keep writing.

Brian Clark

#83. Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?"
"Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.

Lisa Kleypas

#84. I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don't want to face it. And there's denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.

Art Buchwald

#85. Take perfection and throw it out the window. There's always something you can make better or do differently - strive to IMPROVE, not attain the impossible.

Denise Austin

#86. I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' ... The twenty-five percent is for error.

Linus Pauling

#87. Do you think it's better to fail at something worthwhile, or to succeed at something meaningless?

Tommy Wallach

#88. The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

George Bernard Shaw

#89. Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

Jeff Koons

#90. Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.

Reid Hoffman

#91. Never give anyone permission to hurt your feelings. Always face them by standing up for what is right and you will feel strong. If you do not stand strong, people will pity you, and then you lose something adults call dignity. Never accept pity. No one on earth is better than anyone else.

John J. Siefring

#92. I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.

Boris Johnson

#93. Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

Bobby Bowden

#94. If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Roberto Clemente

#95. A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.

Bradford Cox

#96. Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn't. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

Richard House

#97. It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

John Cusack

#98. There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

Amy Poehler

#99. When life pushes you to quit something, just do it without any questions for that happens in two cases - either life has something better than that in store for you or that thing is going to harm you beyond repair soon.

Namrata

#100. The Internet is an excellent invention for people with nothing better to do, and people with something better to do who nonetheless don't want to do it.

Amanda Sledz