Quotes About Better Than Before

#1. Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Karen Blixen

#2. Perfection may be an impossible goal, but habits help us to do better. Making headway toward a good habit, doing better than before, saves us from facing the end of another year with the mournful wish, once again, that we'd done things differently.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. For I've finally realized, that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, Love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.

Gloria Estefan

#4. She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.

Elias Canetti

#5. He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

Rumi

#7. I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.

Bernard Tschumi

#8. Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.

Paul Harvey

#9. I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

Mitch Hedberg

#10. Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Mary Baker Eddy

#11. All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

Carl Sandburg

#12. You look ... better than before."
Was that a compliment? I could have sworn Lucien gave Tamlin an encouraging nod.
"And you hair is ... clean.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it's so much better than before because of something you did.

Dan Groat

#14. We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Danielle Steel

#15. So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#16. When you think about it, life is a risk. Every day is a risk. Getting in a car is a risk. Loving is a risk. But, darling, losing it all means that you have a chance to rebuild, better than before.

Justina Chen

#17. It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

Lucian Freud

#18. Be inspired, raising the bar of excellence in your life every day. Act better than before; grow higher than usual; think faster than normal.

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. The challenges we face in life are not meant to be some sort of punishment; rather, they are an invitation to change - and an opportunity to create something even better than before.

Sam Cawthorn

#20. Whatever the enemy has stolen from you, God will restore it and make it better than before! Claim this promise for you and your family!

Paul Silway

#21. I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

Winona Ryder

#22. I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

William Shakespeare

#23. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more than you did before.

J.D. Robb

#24. Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Stephen Hawking

#25. It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight

Carlos E. Asay

#26. He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

Michel De Montaigne

#27. The union with Christ which produces no effect on heart and life is a mere formal union, which is worthless before God. The faith which has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

J.C. Ryle

#28. I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

Rafael Nadal

#29. 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

#30. Every year, I just want to do better than I did the year before.

Zach Parise

#31. I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.

Anna Friel

#32. The earth was all before me. With a heart
Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty,
I look about; and should the chosen guide
Be nothing better than a wandering cloud,
I cannot miss my way.

William Wordsworth

#33. I'm sure it was a good house in its time as well, but sometimes what is left behind when something has been lost is even better than the thing that came before.

Susanna Kearsley

#34. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.

Ronald C. White Jr.

#35. Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

Frederick Sanger

#36. There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Henry David Thoreau

#37. It is better to have no hope than just a little hope. A little hope just gets you thinking something good is about to happen. And when that little hope is taken away, you are worse off than before.

Richard LeMieux

#38. He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.

Leo Tolstoy

#39. Ready or not! Before I can stop him, Max races toward the bed and dives on top of us. Oh! Oh it feels even better than I imagined. He rolls back and forth across us as Charlie laughs and I wonder why I am friends with such a raging idiot.

Victoria Scott

#40. I've never feared death before. I've always been willing to die. Sometimes I even welcomed it, wishing for this all to be over and finally find peace in an endless sleep. But when I look at you, I see possibility, and I start to do what I know better than to do - I wonder

Emalynne Wilder

#41. Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

A.A. Milne

#42. I know when one door closes God will open up another door. What was meant for my harm God will use to my advantage. I'm not only coming out, I will come out better off than I was before.

Joel Osteen

#43. Make every day a little better than the day before.

Joe Evener

#44. I can't think of a better rationale to create a work of art. I don't care what form one's art takes, it has to be an attempt to leave the world a better place than it was before we got here or it's not doing its job. And I don't mean just making things that are pretty.

Charles De Lint

#45. This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

Johann Arndt

#46. In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

Sophie Swetchine

#47. And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift

#48. True friends, regardless of their age, lift you up and make you a better person than you were before. They help make things right.

Laura Bradford

#49. What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

John Milton

#50. There may be times in my life where a situation looks bleak or doesn't make sense, but having faith in God allows me to know that He will take me through that situation and make me better off than I was before.

Dan Ellis

#51. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#52. Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.

Mark Kurlansky

#53. If we make every day better than the one before, today will be the best day yet, and the greatest days ever will await us in every tomorrow.

Wes Fesler

#54. I'm glad that people have responded well to it, so far. I'm thankful for that. But, I'm also excited now that I have a better grasp of this character than I did before. I want to take it even further and really explore who Glenn is.

Steven Yeun

#55. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. At least, I think I love you. I've never felt this way before, but I can't imagine caring about anyone more than this. I want to be with you, Emmy. Hell, I offered to let you kick my balls just so you'd feel better. Doesn't that count for something?

Joanna Wylde

#57. The music kicks in and maybe the bad times kick out and maybe the world's a little better for them than it was before.

Cath Crowley

#58. I guess [coming out publicly] seems like a weight off my shoulders. I've been playing a lot better than I've ever played before. I think I'm just enjoying myself and I'm happy.

Megan Rapinoe

#59. This, too, was part of losing Fran: watching all the things she'd made better with her presence fade blacker than they'd been before she came along.

Seanan McGuire

#60. Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.

Rick Perlstein

#61. The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Steve Young

#62. You laughed and were happy. I was watching you. I understand the stories your face tells so much better than I did before. I know what your happiness looks like now.

Thea Harrison

#63. CHAPTER XII IN WHICH OLIVER IS TAKEN BETTER CARE OF, THAN HE EVER WAS BEFORE. AND IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE REVERTS TO THE MERRY OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUTHFUL FRIENDS

Charles Dickens

#64. Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

Daisaku Ikeda

#65. There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail ... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.

Hal Elrod

#66. Did you see a doctor? (Syn) Yeah. It'll heal. (Cruel) Did your mom say anything? (Syn) Clean the blood out of the carpet before it sets. What could she say? Better me than her. (Cruel)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#67. I can't wait to shock the doubters and prove I'm better and stronger than I was before.

Derrick Rose

#68. Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

Dwayne Johnson

#69. For driving, a January thaw was always preferable to actual ice, but when it was over things froze more treacherously than before. And in its melting and condensing the roadside snow turned to clumps reminiscent of black-spotted cauliflower. Better never to have thawed.

Lorrie Moore

#70. I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

Jonathan Dee

#71. Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Abraham Lincoln

#72. I think there's two kinds of love. One kind of love burns so hot that it burns out before you get a chance to enjoy it. The other love is one that lifts you and makes you better than you were before.

Tara Brown

#73. Oh better far those echoing hells
Half-threaten'd in the pealing bells
Than that this 'I' should cease to be -

John Betjeman

#74. And like I've said before, sometimes its better to do bad things for the right reasons than good things for the wrong ones. Right?

Alexander Gordon Smith

#75. As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

Jenny Eclair

#76. You try to play the song better than you had before.

John Petrucci

#77. The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than reality, more nearly a projection of what I wanted from reality than anything I had experienced before.

Paul Auster

#78. With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

Ron Wood

#79. I don't think there's anybody better than Leonardo DiCaprio, and I've been saying that since before anyone knew who he was.

Michael Keaton

#80. Just a little snack sometimes is better than a whole meal, its like a kiss before orgasm.

Chloe Thurlow

#81. I was silly to care, or to even try when all was dusted. I look back now, stronger and happier than ever before with no absolutely no regrets to a path with so much more, a path where I could have done much better, in which I will, laughing at the past with no regret.

X

#82. We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

Woodrow Wilson

#83. The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Kurt Vonnegut

#84. It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

Thomas Malthus

#85. I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Emeril Lagasse

#86. In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#87. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation.

Susan Cain

#88. While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible.

Tim Cook

#89. And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education.

Craig Benson

#90. Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London. Own a pet giraffe. Skydive. Divide by zero. Play the piano. Speak French. Write a book. Travel to a different planet. Be a better dad than mine was. Feel good about myself. Go to New York City. Know equality. Live.

Jennifer Niven

#91. I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.

Drake

#92. The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

Sally Ride

#93. I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Bailee Madison

#94. Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

Rich Lowry

#95. She had bumped me out of the center of my world. I'd become a baby person, and it felt good, better than what had come before.

Mohsin Hamid

#96. 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

#97. A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done - trying to even the scales before they cross the river.

Conn Iggulden

#98. I just feel like I understand Cameron Diaz better than I ever have before, and I don't like it. I don't like to see everything I see. It's like a magnifying mirror only soulful, and I'm not looking at her, I'm looking at us, you know? And our pores are huge.

Julie Klausner

#99. Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Franz Liszt

#100. People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before.

Richard M. Daley