Quotes About Being A Better Person

#1. And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

Mark Haddon

#2. I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.

Joel Madden

#3. You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

Sue Wicks

#4. Then I smiled at her, right before I grbbed a handful of copper hair and yanked her out of the chair. Screw being a better person.

Jenny Trout

#5. Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

Kevin DeYoung

#6. I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

Julianne Hough

#7. I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.

Megan McCafferty

#8. Screw being a better person.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. A Champion is all they can be in every facet of their lives. They prioritize what they need to get done. But for me it's someone who works every single day on being a better person.

Shannon Higgins-Cirovski

#10. Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

Sharon Stone

#11. It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Rick Rubin

#12. At any moment, I could start being a better person ... but which moment should I choose?

Ashleigh Brilliant

#13. Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

Trent Reznor

#14. I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.

Sonia Sotomayor

#15. It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

J.R. Rim

#16. Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.

Alicia Silverstone

#17. A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. I don't think being polite for polite's sake makes you a better person. I try to be as genuine as I can afford.

Angela Richardson

#19. Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

Angelique Kidjo

#20. I guess you could say that I'm the luckiest girl because I got to meet my true hero. She was a precious person. She made me a better singer, a better person. She was the consummate artist and human being.

Dottie West

#21. Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.

Viswanathan Anand

#22. just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.

Lee Strobel

#23. I wanted to make decisions on who I loved by who completed me, made me feel good about myself. Who I could love freely and help make a better person by just being there.

Kim Harrison

#24. I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

Taylor Hicks

#25. Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.

Olivia Wilde

#26. But Ignatian spirituality is so capacious that even an introduction will touch upon a broad spectrum of topics: making good choices, finding meaningful work, being a good friend, living simply, wondering about suffering, deepening your prayer, striving to be a better person, and learning to love.

James Martin

#27. As a director and an actor, it is very difficult to say "this person was better than another person." I judge by chemistry of the actors but it is difficult being a judge. I will never bash any of the actors.

Tommy Wiseau

#28. God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.

Graham Cooke

#29. Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

Naveen Jain

#30. My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis,

Drew Barrymore

#31. Maybe being broken helps you become a better person.

Paige Rawl

#32. In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

Michael J. Fox

#33. Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Tom Kristensen

#34. One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments ... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

Stefan Zweig

#35. I know what love is, Mom. I've had love that burns in every fiber of my being, that drives me to be a better person and empowers me through each moment of the day. If you'd ever had something like that, you'd hold on to it with every bit of strength you had.

Richelle Mead

#36. If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Vivienne Westwood

#37. It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work, I got there...

Jonathan Franzen

#38. It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

Jenny Holzer

#39. George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!

Shailene Woodley

#40. What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?

Vaclav Havel

#41. You can't describe the feeling of being in love - when you meet someone who makes you a better person.

Zac Efron

#42. Even if I only got to spend that first drive to the planetarium with Theo, he broke me in a way everyone should be lucky to be cracked open at least once. I had the privilege of being destroyed by him until we found a better, real me inside of the person I was pretending to be.

Adam Silvera

#43. Scott Hall is a great wrestler, a better friend, but more than anything a very caring human being. Scott never passed a homeless person or someone in need without opening his wallet. This is a guy that has the first two nickels he ever made.

Kevin Nash

#44. Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.

Amy Poehler

#45. I am never going to get better at being a good person. I am always going to be the blood and shit of things.

John Green

#46. A bitter experience makes us a better person.

Saru Singhal

#47. I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, less lonely. But it's not as simple as that, is it? Being with someone?

Naomi Campbell

#48. You've changed me, and you don't even realize it. Just being with you, near you? It makes me want to be a better person. You make me want to take a risk.

Ella Frank

#49. I'm a better person when I'm with you. I don't want to stop being that person. I don't want you to go

Alex Flinn

#50. If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place,

Nick Vujicic

#51. Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

Felicity Huffman

#52. The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Robert Ringer

#53. I am not a professional coach but I believe being healthy inside and out and cleansing your demons ... helps you perform better in business and become a more positive person.

Michelle Mone

#54. I don't make friends easily, because I think most people are useless idiots. I don't see that as being a flaw on my part. There is no such thing as a "people person"; some people are just better at faking niceness. I put in an effort occasionally.

Ashley Little

#55. There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.

Pat Summitt

#56. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

McCall Hoyle

#57. Being a healthy broke person was better than being an unhealthy broke person. Besides, he needed to think. And to be honest, most of what he did at the gym was more like thinking than exercising.

Marshall Thornton

#58. Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else is doing. But they make the world a better place, Sugar Honey, you can trust me on that.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#59. Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.

Laura Allen

#60. I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Gordon Bell

#61. To be a better person, spend less time filling out your personal scorecard and more time being kind . . . to you.

Philip Chard

#62. To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes.

Hale Irwin

#63. I think that being a mom has made me a better person. I'm much more patient and much more chill than I was before.

Cobie Smulders

#64. For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity: for me to give the person a better life, to realize where not to be, and to see what could be even better than being with that person I love.

Byron Katie

#65. Remember ... that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted,or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.

Stella Chess

#66. Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

Ashton Kutcher

#67. Don't you think that being a person of faith has become a third rail in American politics? If you want to run for president nowadays, you'd better get out there and say you're a very faith-based person.

Bill Maher

#68. Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

Maurice Sendak

#69. Being a successful and wealthy man doesn't mean that you have to forget about the place where you were brought up and the people who struggleds to make you a better person

Diyar Harraz

#70. I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.

Kevin Hart

#71. The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another, is in some way, to make that person's life a little bit better to live.

John Assaraf

#72. God doesn't call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn't teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent!

Shannon L. Alder

#73. Being a good person, or a better person, or whatever it is you're worried about and trying to fix? It shouldn't change who you are. It means you become more like yourself.

Stephanie Perkins

#74. Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, "The redder the lips, the better the tips," and that was like the only advice she gave me.

Brit Marling

#75. Being a mom has made me a better person. It's made me more compassionate. It's just awesome. I think I was put here to be a mom.

Stephanie Mills

#76. A little danger is better than a lot of safety if being safe means being without the person with whom you were meant to share your life.

Lisa C. Temple

#77. She understands all at once, with a small shock, exactly what it is she always needed to tell Harland: being there in person is not the same as watching. You might see things better on television, but you'll never know if you were alive or dead while you watched.

Barbara Kingsolver