Top 100 Quotes About Better Than You
#1. I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
Billy Connolly
#2. Don't waste your time searching and wishing. Grow and be ready ... and you'll see God will give you a love story far better than you could ever dreamed of.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#3. Pretty thing, and such a bad liar. A dog can smell a lie, you know. Look around you, and take a good whiff. They're all liars here ... and every one better than you.
George R R Martin
#4. Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
J. Cole
#6. And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you.
Stacey Kade
#7. Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.
David Denby
#8. Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.
Warren Miller
#9. It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.
Jean Baudrillard
#10. Picture the person who intimidates you most. Now picture them crouched like a dog, pooping on the sidewalk, looking up at you, all vulnerable. We all poop. Maybe not on the sidewalk, but nobody is better than you and don't let them think they are for a minute.
Caprice Crane
#11. Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.
Farrah Gray
#12. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: "I can do it better than you," but simply: "I can do it.
Ayn Rand
#13. You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
Jonathan Tropper
#14. As a teenager i experienced existential despair as an unsexy sensation of repressed orgasm in the chest; today i experience existential despair as a distinct sensation of wanting to lecture you on how i am better than you, without crushing your hopes and dreams
Tao Lin
#15. The only person you can trust with a good idea is a fool; he will not know what to do with it. The last person you trust with a good idea is a shrewd person; he will take advantage of it better than you would.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#16. Im a bitch, Im a bitch
Oh the bitch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitch, I can bitch
'cause Im better than you
Its the way that I move
The things that I do
Elton John
#17. I'm yours." It was his turn to stop her words. "Just stay with me," he said. "In any way you want." "You deserve better." Rough, broken words. "There's no one better than you." "I'll be the best soldier you ever have," she repeated in a shattered whisper. "I know." It would have to be enough.
Nalini Singh
#18. Business success depends on good business leadership, and that means hiring and partnering with only the people your business really needs. These are the smart, hardworking people who know your industry as well as, or even better than, you.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#19. Once you left Easterly, you saw the world was full of these people: ticket sellers, snack bar clerks. They assumed they were better than you just because they knew their own routines.
Wally Lamb
#20. What I'm saying here is sometimes the one you love introduces you to the person inside - the real one who you're close to, you don't even recognize her. Sometimes the one you love knows you better than you know yourself. They bring out the best in us when we least expect it.
Kendall Grey
#21. When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.
Lee Brice
#22. I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.
David Chang
#23. My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a wish fulfillment, fantasy-type show.
Mike White
#24. Today you are lifted higher. Understand that you can go further and be better than you ever thought possible. Start by saying yes to all good things. Doors will open for you filled with unlimited opportunities.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#25. The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue of being the government, can spend money in ways that no private citizen or group no matter how powerful, can.
Jesse Taylor
#26. I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
Nia Vardalos
#27. Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.
Rex Stout
#28. . "You think you know me?"
"Jason," I sigh loudly. "I probably know you better than you know yourself unfortunately.
Rachel Spanswick
#29. If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#30. Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.
Gary North
#31. People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.
Dennis E. Adonis
#32. I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now
Kerri Walsh
#33. If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.
Robert A. Heinlein
#34. What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.
Herb Brooks
#35. Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
#36. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Paul Auster
#37. Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?"
"Girls don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione.
"Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully.
J.K. Rowling
#38. To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.
Bill Nye
#39. He's not better than you, I replied. He's just better for me.
Dakota Madison
#40. If there is no one who is perfect,So there is no one better than you
Mohammed Sekouty
#41. You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.
Joe Biden
#42. As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.
Carmelo Anthony
#43. For once in your life, listen to your younger sister. She's taller, and she knows better than you
Stephanie Perkins
#44. Islam is not about "we're better than you". Rather it is about "let me show you something that is better for you
Nouman Ali Khan
#45. Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.
John C. Maxwell
#46. The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.
Pico Iyer
#47. Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
Linus Pauling
#48. Nobody's better than you and you're no better than anybody.
Mary Mihalic
#49. You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that's important.
Blake Griffin
#50. You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy.
Michael Bassey
#51. I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.
Andre Rieu
#53. Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.
Frederick Lenz
#54. Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.
Leah Busque
#55. No matter how good you are at something there's always about a million people better than you.
Matt Groening
#56. ...the only trick with friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are - not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving - and then appreciate them for what they can teach you...
Hanya Yanagihara
#57. Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.
Dean Cain
#58. When I look at my eighty-five-year-old face in the mirror today, I think, "You're never going to look better than you do today, honey, so smile." Whoever said a smile is the best face-lift was one smart woman.
Anita Diamant
#59. Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
Walt Whitman
#60. Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.
Alan Cohen
#61. And you don't care that I'm your brother," he said. "I know how you felt about Jace, even when you thought he was your brother. You can't lie to me." "Jace is better than you." "No one's better than me.
Cassandra Clare
#62. There's so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment rights. There are so many things to consider and an agent is going to know how to wade through all that much better than you are.
Ann M. Martin
#63. What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.
Fritz Leiber
#64. Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#65. advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you? But if you demand advice, I will for friendship's sake give it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#66. If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partialy judging, you will find that he is better than you.
Saint Basil
#67. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Timothy Ferriss
#68. There is no disappointment so numbing ... as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph Heller
#69. You stupid cow!" He laughed at her behind those icicle eyes. "You really think anyone is better than you? Everyone's a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their neighbor. Forty of us around a table weren't enough to convince you of that?
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty
#70. But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.
Paul Thomas Anderson
#71. I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to "surround yourself with people who are better than you," and I was now living that mantra.
Kimberly Novosel
#72. I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.
Randy Newman
#73. My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.
Esai Morales
#74. Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.
Guy Kawasaki
#75. What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche?
Leigh Bardugo
#76. You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
C.S. Lewis
#77. Straight edge means I'm better than you.
CM Punk
#78. Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
Jack Welch
#79. Never set as your goal something that a dead person can do better than you.
Russ Harris
#80. There's plenty of opportunity for everyone, so there's no reason to worry about somebody else's success, either saying you couldn't do this so she's better than you, or she's doing it so you can't. No, she's doing it so you can.
Nancy Pelosi
#81. Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.
Jim Rohn
#82. If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.
Paul Walker
#83. Anything you can do I can do better,
I can do anything better than you.
Irving Berlin
#84. No one can play your role better than you.
Sagar Ugale
#85. He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan's vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.
Conn Iggulden
#86. The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.
George R R Martin
#87. I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
Shawn Johnson
#88. It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.
[check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you.
James A. Owen
#89. So go ahead and face that fear, make that effort, move forward into new territory and fully live the grand possibilities with which you're blessed. Boldly face life, and you'll find it to be better than you ever imagined.
Ralph Marston
#90. I'm sorry if I have the emotional stability of a teeter-totter right now, but that's better than you, who has the emotional maturity of a rock.
Chanda Hahn
#91. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
Baden Powell
#92. Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#93. The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.
Frederick Lenz
#94. someone did better than you because they didn't follow a rule and were not caught. And you do not want to be the person everyone else dislikes and thinks of as a cheat.
Daniel Thomas
#95. 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
#96. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT ...
Terry Pratchett
#97. Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
James Brown
#98. You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.
Don Draper
#99. It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett
#100. I know you, Ruth Ann Carver. I know you better than you know yourself. You think you do things right. You think you're a paragon of right living. This is a self-told lie, one bolstered by your coddling parents and grandparents.
Carolyn Lee Adams
