Top 100 Quotes About Better Yourself
#1. As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it?
Rosamund Pike
#2. When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.
Alison Owen
#3. Live your life somewhere in between Ayn Rand and Mother Theresa. It's just as important to better yourself as it is to better others.
Gregor Collins
#4. Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
Karl Kraus
#5. Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
Bobby Bowden
#6. You play because you have a guilty attraction to supernatural beasts and harlequin love stories, but you harbour the secret presumption that you could write them way better yourself. Good. This is your opportunity to prove it.
Avery Alder
#7. It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
Dale Earnhardt
#8. Practice honest self believe to learn and to better yourself.
Jerry Gladstone
#9. Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.
T.D. Jakes
#10. There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
George Eliot
#12. When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.
Brad Lidge
#13. If you better yourself, you are bettering the world by default.
Ben Tolosa
#14. Never let anyone belittle your efforts to better yourself. Let them stand back or stand aside, but you move forward no matter who tries to stop you.
Toni Sorenson
#16. It's a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.
Demi Lovato
#18. When you make yourself a better you, you inevitably make a better life for your family. That's the thing I'll always embrace and you should too. Better yourself. Enjoy your life.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#19. We all like to complain about movies, shows, comics, and the like. This is your chance to put your money where your mouth is! Instead of complaining about what bad stories there are, create something better yourself.
Comfort Love
#20. Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.
Paul Weller
#21. There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings.
Lee L Jampolsky
#22. If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself
Leo Tolstoy
#23. Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.
Dick Vitale
#24. I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.
Cillian Murphy
#25. I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.
Max Schneider
#26. If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.
Ellen Goodman
#27. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."
John F. Kerry
#28. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.
Allison Winn Scotch
#29. Everyone is alien. And even when you are in love with someone, even when you think you know them better than you know yourself; even when you think you know everything about them and they you, and you live in each other's souls.
Even then you know nothing about them at all.
Jenny Colgan
#30. If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better.
Anthony Liccione
#31. You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
Tony Hillerman
#32. Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the corner and you've got very little to show for it, but if you are going to get anything done on this planet, you better pick it up with both hands and DO IT YOURSELF.
Peter Laughner
#33. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
Mark McCormack
#34. It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
Mary Cheney
#35. Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.
Yasmina Khadra
#36. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]
Cyril Connolly
#37. It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself
Jack London
#38. The value of your life is not measured in your success but your failures, your ability to fight, to make a better day for yourself is what you will remember in life's last challenge.
Westley Tusa
#39. The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.
Will Smith
#40. It would be better if you begin to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
Albert Einstein
#41. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#42. If you want something done, you sure as hell better do it yourself.
Rachel Van Dyken
#43. Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
Sara Genn
#44. Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you.
Yoshitaka Amano
#45. Look, if you're going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you're going to fall. If you're not falling, you're not pushing. Falling is part of getting better.
Darren Hardy
#46. Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.
Thomas Keating
#47. Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
Anna Kournikova
#48. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change
Renae A. Sauter
#49. Everyone deserves a sad day once in a while," Calista told me. "Sometimes things are too big for cheering up. Sometimes the best way to make things better is just to let yourself be sad for a little bit.
Lisa Graff
#50. Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you've seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#51. More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.
Tom Robbins
#52. Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.
William Bernbach
#53. To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better.
Michelle Obama
#54. I think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, you can constantly talk about how good you are at everything, and how terrible they are at everything.
Katherine Heigl
#55. I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.
Anthony Liccione
#56. Sometimes jn your life you make a decision and you find yourself questioning it. A lot. You don't regret it, exactly.you know that you probably made the best choice and that you're probably better off for it. But you do spend a lot of time wondering what the hell you were thinking
K.A. Tucker
#58. I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.
Andrew Bird
#59. Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.
John C. Maxwell
#60. I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.
Meryl Davis
#61. The invitation to something better is not arriving from any source outside of yourself - ever.
Bryant McGill
#62. My best advice for finding inner happiness is to reach outside yourself, to use your talents and brains and personality to make life better for someone else.
Nick Vujicic
#63. No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
Madonna Ciccone
#64. I laughed. "I don't care if you're nice or not. I just want you to be you. No more pretending. I think it's time we all got to know the real Logan Lyke."
"What if I don't know who the real me is?" he asked.
"Then I guess you better find yourself," I smiled.
Micalea Smeltzer
#65. I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20's.
Todd English
#66. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe # running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life,
Haruki Murakami
#67. Don't use your past romantic relationships As a template for your new relationship. Every person is different. You yourself are now different. Make it new, make it better, make it great.
Sienna McQuillen
#68. It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
William Feather
#69. When I play myself, I want to be a slightly better person. It just agrees. Everything I play about myself is kind of true, but it's amplified. We all edit, don't we? If you're self-aware, you stop yourself - you know how to behave properly.
Steve Coogan
#70. The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it's okay for clothes not that great for people
Karl Lagerfeld
#71. No one can know you better than two peoples in the world.
1- Yourself
2- Your Mirror
Abhishek Bhatt
#72. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?
Kenneth Cain
#73. Don't compare yourself to other MOMS ... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.
Tanya Masse
#74. How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?
Katie McGarry
#75. When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.
Frank Lampard
#76. You can literally go on and on and on with the blame game, but let me tell you, it only causes more heartache. You will be no better off and will still have no answers.
Sharon Critchfield
#77. It's about getting to a point in your life where you're ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself.
Jared Leto
#78. He had wanted to go to the Academy and become a Shadowhunter, to learn more about his own life and remember everything he had lost, to become someone stronger and better.
Except that you did not become someone stronger and better by only thinking about yourself.
Cassandra Clare
#79. You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#80. I should have known you were no better than the rest of them. You are only a man, you do not have the ability to control yourself, but she," Lady Catherine nodded sagely, "she knew exactly what she was doing. Fluffing her feathers and shaking her tail for you! It was disgraceful!
Elizabeth Adams
#81. I guess its because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone-anyone-feel a little better.
J.D Scrubs
#82. Keep on reinventing yourself! Always strive to be a better version of yourself!
Avijeet Das
#83. Devote yourself to getting to know Him better, then you will grow in that righteousness which is in you, in peace, in joy and God will look after other people and solve their problems for them.
Sunday Adelaja
#84. When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.
Raekwon
#85. Life's not about making mistakes because we all do. But you must always learn and rebound from your mistakes to catapult yourself to a better life!
Timothy Pina
#86. If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.
Bryant McGill
#87. You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
Audre Lorde
#88. Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff
#89. Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going.
Dianna Agron
#90. Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
Thomas Carlyle
#91. I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.
Abby Wambach
#92. Seek to engage yourself in passionate reading.
You will gain better understanding of life .
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. It's better to end something and start another than to imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible. Life can never promise to always be happy but life gets better after you accept things you just can't change. For you Jelle, from me.. with luv. He-he!
Marione Ashley
#94. The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
Marc Veasey
#95. Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#96. Tonight, unhappy with your love, your job, your life, not enough money? Use your head. You can think yourself into a lot better you. Positive thoughts can transform, can attract the good things you know you want. Sound far-fetched? Think again. It's supported by science.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#97. When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.
John French Sloan
#98. Successful leaders all share one common trait - they believe that they can do a better job than the alternatives. Humility is fine when considering your responsibility and duty, but when it comes time to make a decision, you must not question yourself.
Brandon Sanderson
#99. You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose,
Jeremy Lin
#100. Make today a gift to your future self.
Anonymous
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