Quotes About Being Better Than Someone Else

#1. What's the point of being better than someone else?

Noam Chomsky

#2. Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

Nathaniel Branden

#3. I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Alexei Sayle

#4. We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.

Naomi Watts

#5. I think, yes, a man and a woman can be good friends, but it isn't easy for them being as no one else will suppose that that is what they are. And then there's the problem of being different sexes. I think if they are good friends, then whatever else they are - or are not - is better.

A.S. Byatt

#6. Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

Seth Godin

#7. I think it's very human, the hope that an all-encompassing love will change us into someone else, someone better. That this hope usually turns out to be false makes it no less human; the world is full of hopes far more unlikely than being transformed by love.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#8. Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Julius Lester

#9. That crap about being better off under slavery is too much even for you, isn't it, Foy?'
'At least McJones cares.'
'Come on, he cares about black people like a seven-footer cares about football. He has to care because what else would he be good at.

Paul Beatty

#10. I like her explanation better than just being a diminutive
of someone else.

Thalia Chaltas

#11. I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.

Alex Mack

#13. Be yourself
it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

Ethel Merman

#14. I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

Carrie Fisher

#15. I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.

Charles Bukowski

#16. Talk nonsense to me, by all means, but do it with your own brain, and I shall love you for it. To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that is someone else's; in the first instance you behave like a human being, while in the second you are merely being a parrot!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

Robin Meade

#18. Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

Mary Lambert

#19. What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?

Sue Grafton

#20. That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

Kelley Armstrong

#21. The one thing Hugo did better than almost anyone else, the one constant for much of his life, was being taken away in a most ignominious way.

Craig Lancaster

#22. I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Goldie Hawn

#23. As bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else.
-Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Chris Rose

#24. What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.

Elif Batuman

#25. Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

Dominick Cruz

#26. A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

Max Lucado

#27. Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

Jack Abramoff

#28. 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

#29. There's not much point to being alive if you don't do what you can to make life better for someone else, is there?

Michael Thomas Ford

#30. Better be," Eve said. She mock-bit at his finger. "I could totally date somebody else, you know."
"And I could rent out your room."
"And I could put your game console on eBay."
"Hey," Shane protested. "Now you're just being mean.

Rachel Caine

#31. i don't take breaks. you're either with me or you lose me to someone better than you. i refuse to give you a pass to freely fuck someone else then return to me when you're tired of being fucked over..

R H Sin

#32. I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.

Dennis Wholey

#33. But when you're naturally better than everyone else, and when that talent is so utterly obvious, being quiet doesn't translate as humble. It translates as boredom.

Chuck Klosterman

#34. People come to L.A. because they're chasing that dream of a better life. That's why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people who had a dream of being something else. And that proved to be true.

Robert Crais

#35. Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring ... I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful ... that they are alive, if for nothing else.

L.M. Montgomery

#36. Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

C.S. Lewis

#37. The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something I make, the better.

Jeff Tweedy

#38. Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

Jodi Picoult

#39. 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

#40. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

Jeanette Winterson

#41. If there is anything I've learned being the mother of many children, it's that you'd better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is.

Chris Jordan

#42. True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

Portia De Rossi

#43. No one else can understand you better than you yourself.

Vikrmn

#44. Then why, Michael asked "are you expecting perfection out of yourself? Do you really think you're that much better than the rest of us? That your powers make you a higher quality of human being? That your knowledge places you on a higher plane than everyone else on this world?

Jim Butcher

#45. If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!

Thomm Quackenbush

#46. It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).

Robin Meade

#47. Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.

Elisabeth Elliot

#48. You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.

John Wooden

#49. Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#50. Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

Mark Rippetoe

#51. No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

S.A. Tawks

#52. I mean, some people accuse me of being racist. I'm totally not, I'm just better than everybody else.

Zach Braff

#53. Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#54. When you serve others, when you make somebody else's life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you're being blessed.

Joel Osteen

#55. My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

Maya Angelou

#56. For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.

Moby