Top 100 Never Better Quotes
#2. The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
Charles James
#3. It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.
Charles Dickens
#4. The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children.
Charles Darwin
#5. Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something that does not exist.
Connie Brockway
#6. The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
Carl Linnaeus
#8. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#9. I am never better than when I am mad: then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.
Thomas Kyd
#10. Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
#11. Hello," he said. "Tom?" A whoop of joy. "Alice, where are you? Are you all right?" "Never better, Tom. And you?
Mary Higgins Clark
#13. Everyone okay?" Mal asked.
"Never better," said Genya shakily.
David raised his hand. "I've been better.
Leigh Bardugo
#14. For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Charles Dickens
#15. You okay, sweetheart?" Daniel asked. He put the ice cream on the bedside table and sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes worried. I looked at him, then down at our little baby. "Never better," I said.
Kristan Higgins
#16. We know in Life have always people that can do or knowing things better but the Truth is never better or worse, but a Fact of the True.
Jan Jansen
#17. It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#19. Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.
Adam Smith
#20. Satan is never better pleased, than when he sees Christians puzzled and perplexed about those things in religion, which are of no great consequence or importance.
Thomas Brooks
#21. I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.
Pearl S. Buck
#22. You never know what you can handle until if comes time to handle it. The less you think about it the better you'll handle it.
Art Hochberg
#23. You might think you're a good liar, but you're not. I'm better at this than you are. Your professional lying days were limited to junkies and whores, but I routinely lie to Congress . . . Well, never mind. I suppose we're not that different after all.
Larry Correia
#24. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...
J.K. Rowling
#25. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.
Bill Hicks
#26. King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#27. You have to work everyday at being the best you can be. It's a project that is never-ending.
J. Junior Reynolds II
#28. There never was an overseer on the whole plantation. The oldest colored man always looked after the niggers. We niggers lived better than the niggers on the other plantations.
Norman R. Yetman
#29. Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.
Drew Carey
#30. Anther spasm ripped through me and all I could wonder was why in the world had women been doing this for thousands of years? This was barbaric. This was torture. Never again. Never again as long as I lived would I have another baby, so Beep had better be pretty awesome.
Darynda Jones
#31. Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
Erich Fromm
#32. And then Lucy happened.
Never mind prophecies and bounty hunters, she was the one who'd really turned my life upside down ... She made everything better.
She was necessary.
Alyxandra Harvey
#33. If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.
Robin Hoyle
#34. 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
#35. It's never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.
T. Colin Campbell
#36. A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.
Thucydides
#37. We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.
Chris Bohjalian
#38. You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#39. 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
#40. Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.
Bill Cosby
#41. Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#42. So how can I hold Tobias's desperation against him, like I'm better than him, like I've never let my own brokenness blind me?
Veronica Roth
#43. If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
Billy Joel
#44. People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.
Iain Banks
#45. When I was younger, I never thought there could be anything better than the glory of battle. (Sparhawk)
And now? (Taryn)
Now I would much rather coax a smile from your face. (Sparhawk)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
Mignon McLaughlin
#47. If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
Soichiro Honda
#48. Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.
Donald E. Westlake
#49. don't fast, I will never go on any pilgrimage, and I drink wine - and what's more, the air that makes it better. To cry out that I'm free, and that God is a question, not an answer, and that I want to meet him alone, at my death as at my birth.
Kamel Daoud
#50. I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me.
Peter Greenaway
#51. Will you no come back again?
Better loved you'll never be,
And will you no come back again?
James Hogg
#52. We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.
Thomas Sowell
#53. Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho. But you never read novels, I dare say?" "Why not?" "Because they are not clever enough for you - gentlemen read better books.
Jane Austen
#54. I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.
Bryce Wilson
#55. I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
Angel Haze
#56. I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
Fay Vincent
#57. A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.
Vera Nazarian
#58. No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
Gene Simmons
#59. 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
#60. [May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.
Cynthia Rylant
#61. The saying goes, if you love something, let it go. I always though it was better to just shoot the damn thing so it'd never go anywhere.
Karina Halle
#62. Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate ...
Clay Shirky
#63. Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.
Milton H. Erickson
#64. Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.
Bo Schembechler
#65. Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#66. Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow
for the better
working to deserve each other, was the key.
Penny Reid
#67. 'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
George Edward Woodberry
#68. The twins turned out well, not because of anything that Craig or his wife did but because of the kind of people they are. Good, decent people who always put the needs of their children ahead of their own. It was never more complicated than love, one generation raising a better version of the next.
Jung Yun
#69. I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.
Colin Firth
#70. It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.
Henry David Thoreau
#71. They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.
Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.
Nova Ren Suma
#72. I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.
Maya Angelou
#73. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer.
Gretchen Rubin
#74. I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston
#75. It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.
Alice Walsh
#77. One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their own influences and takes on the characters and make them better for it.
Jim Lee
#78. 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think; drips off one's teeth like sugar-syrup.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
#79. Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
George Orwell
#80. It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
Walter Raleigh
#81. Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#82. Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.
William Bernbach
#83. 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,
#84. The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
Gordon Allport
#85. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it
Benjamin Franklin
#86. You and I? It may end badly. I may get hurt. But guess what? I don't care! I've never had my heart broken. Maybe I'm fine with risking it, because it's better than being afraid and going through life bored.
Jasinda Wilder
#87. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone esle. But without a coach you will never be as good as you could be.
Andy Stanley
#88. And she had the magic I had never come across all my life. A minute with her messed up my mind and heart in a way that all the theories of right and wrong didn't matter anymore. All of a sudden opening my arms to the storm seemed a better choice, than dancing under the rainbows.
Akshay Vasu
#89. Productivity - true productivity - will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon.
Tim Challies
#90. I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.
Bill Burr
#91. Observable Fact: You should never take long shots. Better to study the odds and take the probable shot. However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.
Nicola Yoon
#92. You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
A.E. Housman
#93. I mean , I never even had to really come out to my parents. They always knew, and it was always okay. Or not even okay, better than that. Not something that had to be evaluated at all. It just was. Like having brown hair.
Julie Buxbaum
#94. Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between.
Nicole Williams
#95. Bellamy brought his hands behind his head and tilted his face towards the sun, exhaling as the warmth seeped into his skin. It was almost as nice as being in bed with a girl. Maybe even better, because the sun would never ask him what he was thinking.
Kass Morgan
#96. You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.
Josh Kaufman
#97. Look, Lawrence, I know you never cared for me-"
Law cut him off.
"Cared for you? Cared for you? What am I? The gardener?"
"Okay, you always hated me-"
"Better," Law said. "You're wrong of course, but you said what you meant this time.
Jez Morrow
#98. They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.
Og Mandino
#99. Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier
Mother Teresa
#100. Every Assassin knew that real black often stood out in the dark, because the night in the city is usually never full black, and that gray or dark green merge much better. But they wore black anyway, because style trumps utility every time.
Terry Pratchett
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