Make Things Better Quotes

#1. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.

Rachel Caine

#2. God wants us to perform good deeds--to repair what's broken, to make things better in the world.

Carla Jablonski

#3. As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type; it's the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better. (341)

Victoria Moran

#4. Everyone deserves a sad day once in a while," Calista told me. "Sometimes things are too big for cheering up. Sometimes the best way to make things better is just to let yourself be sad for a little bit.

Lisa Graff

#5. To have a job where you can make things better for people? That's a blessing. Why would I do anything else?

Marla Ruzicka

#6. I know. I don't know what I can do to make things better right now.

Liv Brywood

#7. Just because it wouldn't cure everything doesn't mean it wouldn't make things better than they are.

Sara Raasch

#8. With anything that would make things better, believe as much as you can - then believe a little more.

Daniel Taylor

#9. Never give up on your dreams. No matter how many people say it's impossible, no matter how difficult your journey is, you can create your ideal life. Your heart's desires can become reality. Make things better now by taking steps every day to get closer to the life you want. And never, ever give up.

Susane Colasanti

#10. I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Kurt Cobain

#11. I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

Stevie Wonder

#12. I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.

Jill Bennett

#13. The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

Courtney B. Vance

#14. Don't leave. Stay, and make things better.

Kate Kelly

#15. If you wait for someone else to make things better, you'll be waiting a very long time

Jennifer Donnelly

#16. I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

Mercedes Lackey

#17. I don't believe the old statement, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If that were the case, then Cadillacs and Jaguars and Mercedes would never make a change. I've always looked for ways to make things better.

Vic Bubas

#18. Simplifying your life is meant to make things better, not worse. It's about choices - about saying no to the things in your life that aren't the best so that you are free and available to say yes to those things you truly want.

Tsh Oxenreider

#19. 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

#20. Philanthropy is the duty of how we should behave when things go wrong for people, and how we can help to make things better for everyone - voluntarily, without being required to do it by the government, and for others, without private gain for ourselves.

Robert L. Payton

#21. Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Harry Browne

#22. It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Rose Macaulay

#23. I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

Daniel Ek

#24. Make things better than they have to be.

Roberto Giobbi

#25. Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Andy Stanley

#26. You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better.

Michael Jordan

#27. If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ourselves depends upon our joy in others and theirs in us.

Theodore Dreiser

#28. Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#29. We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can.

Mercedes Lackey

#30. Leadership begins by asking how you can make things better?

Jeffrey Fry

#31. I couldn't bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

Nick Hornby

#32. I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

Buddy Wakefield

#33. I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.

Guo Guangchang

#34. If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!

Mitt Romney

#35. I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

Bill Gates

#36. My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Michael Ironside

#37. Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg

#38. I like to revamp things; like, I make to make things better in my eye, but I don't put out own lines ... I just collab with my favorite brands.

Theophilus London

#39. grounded hope" - the understanding that if you take action you can make things better.

Sheryl Sandberg

#40. I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

Jim Henson

#41. Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.

Steven Harrison

#42. At Yale we don't just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

Peter Salovey

#43. I don't know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.

J.D. Vance

#44. Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Rod Blagojevich

#45. Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Condoleezza Rice

#46. By going to Mars one day, we will make things better for us here on Earth.

Scott Kelly

#47. Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

Travis Bradberry

#48. It wasn't fair what happened to you, either. Or what happened to her. A lot of things aren't. I guess we can either be angry about it forever or else we just have to try to make things better with what we have now.

Ava Dellaira

#49. I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.

Brendan Rodgers

#50. Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

Tom Robbins

#51. Greedy to make things better for those you love. That isn't greed at all. That is ... well ... love. And love is always noble.

Sara Wolf

#52. If we lose our optimism, we lose our greatest power to make things better.

Gary Edward Gedall

#53. Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

Robin Sharma

#54. It was all very well being told that she could do nothing to make things better. Neverfell did not have the kind of mind that could take that quietly. She did not have the kind of mind that could be quiet at all.

Frances Hardinge

#55. If you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't then you are wasting your time on earth

Roberto Clemente Cancel

#56. Sometimes things don't work out as they're planned, and there have to be sacrifices in order to make things better again.

Gail Tsukiyama

#57. It's smart to end relationships that are poisonous. It's a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut people out of your life to make things better. So you can move forward.

Jessica Park

#58. The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

Tom Peters

#59. I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#60. I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

Andre Dubus III

#61. Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better.

Dick Gregory

#62. Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#63. There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

Sam Yagan

#64. No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

Matt Chandler

#65. A philosopher thinks out loud to make things better for everyone else. Fanatics make themselves louder because they think they are better than everyone else.

Corey Taylor

#66. In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don't feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.

Charlotte Pearson

#67. We can't accept that things will always be bad. If we do, we won't fight to make things better.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#68. If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Yehuda Berg

#69. My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man's pride, And now it's almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I've got to make things better for my son and for my tribe

Bob Teague

#70. Lexi, it is for you. I'm working to make things better for you.

K.A. Linde

#71. Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are

Niels Bohr

#72. I gazed up at him as the laughter filled his face, and just loved him. The day had sucked, but Jean-Claude made it suck a lot less, and that was what love was supposed to do. It was supposed to make things better, not worse

Laurell K. Hamilton

#73. 1. Do No Harm 2. Make Things Better 3. Respect Others 4. Be Fair 5. Be Loving

Bruce Weinstein

#74. When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

Maya Angelou

#75. Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

Lance Armstrong

#76. And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Gregory David Roberts

#77. He heard you in the chapel and gave you more time to make things better. Time to say what you needed to say, do what you needed to do. It wasn't a joke! It was divine mercy, and you blew it! You were given what billions of people beg for, and you have the audacity to be angry about it?

John Goode

#78. And why do we think for a second that having the government involved will make things better

Adam Carolla

#79. I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

George P. Shultz

#80. Originality is taking the road less traveled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better. Of

Adam M. Grant

#81. Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."

Philip Schuyler

#82. You can change things, you can make things better.

Jeff Bridges

#83. Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.

Yoko Ono

#84. When you say the word 'sorry' make sure you understand that an apology has 3 parts. "I'm sorry", "It's my fault and I won't do it again" and "How can I make things better". The last part is the most important.

Manasa Rao

#85. But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I'm trying to create good things in the midst of the bad. Grief or no grief. And in my case, it's still somewhere in between.

Emery Lord

#86. Cushman, who assigned her to research McCarthy's assault on civil liberties, "wanted me to understand two things," Ruth recalls. "One is that we were betraying our most fundamental values, and, two, that legal skills could help make things better, could help to challenge what was going on.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#87. I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.

Gail Honeyman

#88. Don't you think you can right your wrongs, Laura? That you can make things better by trying to get back to everything you lost?

Jason Myers

#89. Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive

Cat Stevens

#90. His whole life he tried to make things better for poor children, but his real calling was being a father. It was a talent with him. As soon as our girls could sit up, he was wheeling them to the library and taking out books to read them bedtime stories.

Anita Diamant

#91. I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

Angela Kinsey

#92. The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#93. This is a call to action - not an action that will make things better in six months' time or a year's time, but action that might save someone's life and someone's future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.

Patrick Stewart

#94. I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.

Ben Bernanke

#95. Whatever good there is in the world I inherit from the courage and work of those who went before me. I, in turn, have a responsibility to make things better for those who will inherit the earth from me.

Arthur Dobrin

#96. Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.

Brad Meltzer

#97. ...What makes it magic is taht we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm. But it's so easy to destroy and so much harder to make things better. that's why doing the right thing makes you stronger.

Charles De Lint

#98. I'm not extravagant, so I won't need to rein it in too much. Me and my friend make each other cards. I love being creative and making things. But a better credit crunch idea is to not even bother sending cards.

Konnie Huq

#99. Remember to enjoy everything. The things that feel good, the things that hurt. It's all gonna make you better. Stronger.

Hayley Williams

#100. But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Ransom Riggs