Top 100 For The Better Quotes
#1. If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.
Dana Cowin
#2. When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good ... depending on how it's going that day.
Loudon Wainwright III
#3. Every wonderful thing in our world has a fight in its history: our rights, our good fortune, our happiness. All that is sweet was paid for, once upon a time, by principled people who risked everything to change the world for the better.
Cory Doctorow
#4. Until you know how to change yourself for the better, you cannot change others.
Debasish Mridha
#5. To me, being appropriate
does not always mean conforming. Often it means just
the opposite. Sometimes, refusing to conform and even confronting
is not only appropriate but necessary to change the
world for the better.
Donda West
#6. Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.
Bruce Hornsby
#7. In the moment in which we now find ourselves, we have the ability to focus in on and do the things that serve us for the better - or we can give our attention to those things that reignite whatever thoughts that cause us to remain stuck in the moment or the past.
Josh Hinds
#8. We are all the product of our minds and why Gandhi said ... Become the change we want to see. Because if we don't change our minds for the better ... we will never see the changes in humanity.
Timothy Pina
#9. Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed.
Vineet Nayar
#10. Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
Anita Roddick
#11. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." Harry S. Truman
Shar McBee
#12. 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
#13. Each minute offers us an opportunity to identify concerns, and make changes for the better. All we have to do is be willing to take the risk. So my future? It's not miles away, it's a minute from now.
Scott Hildreth
#15. Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends. It seems when you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change ... But only after trying their hardest to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER let anyone dilute your power to change!
Steve Maraboli
#16. Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.
John C. Maxwell
#17. Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person, not only changed, but for the better
Arthur Gordon
#18. For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Adam Hochschild
#19. We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let them in. There are many undiscovered voices out there - voices that, against all odds, can rise up and enrich this culture and perhaps change the very nature of the marketplace for the better.
Dan Wieden
#20. Stories are important too. Stories help make sense of things. They make you believe you can do things. They help you imagine that things may be different, that if you just have enough courage ... or faith ... or goodness ... you can change things for the better.
Kate Forsyth
#21. Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better.
Matthew Donnelly
#22. Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.
Simon Sinek
#23. We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults.
Pope Francis
#24. God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.
Arthur W. Pink
#25. One of the most valuable gifts that a person can give (or receive) is a productive mentality. It is with a productive mentality that people change their lives for the better, in ways profound.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#26. Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.
Beth Simone Noveck
#27. Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.
Rick Riordan
#28. The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.
Robert Moss
#29. To lead others is to help them change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better.
Jim Rohn
#30. Of course, music is still a passion for me, and my new sort of career doing radio is also a passion, but definitely to be able to put a smile on someone's face. Or just waking up every day, trying to figure out how I can change a person's life for the better.
Raheem Devaughn
#32. We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.
Seth Godin
#33. My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
E.L. Doctorow
#34. Stress is a message. It is a personal invitation to make a change for the better.
Robert Holden
#35. And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good ...
Patrick Ness
#36. Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.
Chuck Schumer
#37. But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better.
Meg Jay
#38. The narration had lasted for the better part of an hour despite Markus's increasingly frequent and obvious glances at his Swiss watch, and left all the others in a strange combination of spellbound, bored, horrified, and bemused.
Neal Stephenson
#39. Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.
Hillary Clinton
#40. It is not important who you are; what is important is what you have done to change humanity for the better.
Debasish Mridha
#41. We can not change history, we can not turn back time, but we can change ourselves,change for the better.
Faiz Triumph
#42. The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.
Brian Wesbury
#43. We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.
John Wesley
#44. [from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.
Amy Dickinson
#45. Tom tingled at the knowledge that he was the only one to hear any of it: the only living man for the better part of a hundred miles in any direction. He thought of the gulls nestled into their wiry homes on the cliffs, the fish hovering stilly in the safety of the
M.L. Stedman
#46. If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
Margaret Atwood
#47. All that we do today ... will help change humanity for the better ... tomorrow!
Timothy Pina
#48. You don't need to wait for that second chance, because every second is a chance to change your life for the better.
Jeanette Coron
#49. For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'
Alex Ebert
#50. With innovation and initiative we have the potential to change the world for the better.
Sameh Elsayed
#51. I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
Edmund Hillary
#52. They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!
Margaret Atwood
#53. Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?
Madonna Ciccone
#54. When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.
Nancy Werlin
#55. I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
Taylor Schilling
#56. But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.
Marisa Silver
#57. I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
Christian Bale
#58. Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution
the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?
Edward Humes
#59. 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
#60. It is not uncommon for someone to be a self-saboteur and compound that by also having a victim mentality. It is as though they are holding their own breath and then blaming others for their inability to breathe. If they can break free from this cycle, everything in their life changes for the better.
Steve Maraboli
#61. For the better part of my childhood, my professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. I didn't care much about ruling hordes of space people. Mostly I wanted to wear the cape and the sexy boots and carry a cool weapon.
Janet Evanovich
#62. There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.
Philip Schultz
#63. When you found someone who could make you laugh when your heart wanted to cry - hold onto them. They will be the ones who will change your life for the better. I'd
Brittainy C. Cherry
#64. In those days, cigarette companies could still advertise on television, but lawyers couldn't; some changes are for the better, and others are not.
Dean Koontz
#65. For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.
Julia Butterfly Hill
#66. I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
Laurie Graham
#67. Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
Joseph Joubert
#68. The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.
Billy Taylor
#69. I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!
Sharon Lawrence
#70. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us.
John Steinbeck
#71. When someone special walks into your life and is able to change things for the better, don't let them walk away.
Wiz Khalifa
#72. One bully changing their behavior for the better can have a profound effect on many, many lives.
Hunter King
#73. 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
#74. No matter what happens throughout your day ... staying positive is always better than being negative. For It's always far better to believe things will change for the better than ... that it won't.
Timothy Pina
#75. When you say "Yes!" to your dream and do what you truly love to do, you are also transforming the world for the better.
Cheryl Hamada
#76. That's quite gallant of you. After you've ignored me for the better part of a week, like a boy half your age with twice your charm.
Renee Ahdieh
#77. No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
#78. It's about the journey
mine and yours
and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.
Tony Dungy
#79. To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.
Chris Prentiss
#80. I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.
Huey Newton
#81. At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.
C. H. Douglas
#82. The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
Peter Lewis Allen
#83. Only true rebelliousness can change the world for the better. Be rebellious.
Debasish Mridha
#84. People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also ... but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.
Steve Maraboli
#85. My hope is that God will have changed people's lives through me for the better.
Joyce Meyer
#86. To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.
Jane Roberts
#87. Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better.
Ursula A. Ciller
#88. In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.
Paul Keating
#89. Only very young people believe that change is always for the better.
Michael Nava
#90. Everything will eventually come to an end,
So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
Cause nothin' lasts forever.
Nas
#91. For every positive change you make in your life, something else also changes for the better - it creates a chain reaction.
Leon Brown
#92. Once you shift your thoughts for the better, your world begins to shift with them.
Marcey Shapiro
#93. Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
Paul Nurse
#94. I've changed for the better. I'm much more selfless and humble and you're reminded about what life's really about. You love your kid so much that you just want to be a brilliant role model for them. It cleans up your act a bit.
Curtis Stone
#95. Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#96. Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.
Seth Godin
#97. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman
#98. I just try things. And the things I like, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. You can look at pictures where I just look terrible. But the older I get, the more I know what works. It's for the better.
Andre Benjamin
#99. If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.
James McGregor
#100. Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.
D. Todd Christofferson
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