Quotes About Do Better

#1. Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#2. You're going to have to do better than that if you want to get into my metaphysical pants.

Allison Pang

#3. I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better.

Jay Woodman

#4. Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

John Mica

#5. Our only consolation, as we feel our own strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves, fixing their eyes as they can on the great horizons of which we only had a glimpse," pronounced Pasteur, with characteristic gallantry. Many

Bill Wasik

#6. I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

James Altucher

#7. It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.

Sheri Fink

#8. How can we do better tomorrow than we did today?

James C. Collins

#9. The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Beth Simone Noveck

#10. I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Lamar Alexander

#11. I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

Andre Holland

#12. My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

Joe Lhota

#13. Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.

John Katzman

#14. The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

Larry Page

#15. Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Ben Horowitz

#16. 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

#17. Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

Jude Law

#19. You can't do better than that.

Jack White

#20. Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?

Rachel Caine

#21. I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

Seth Godin

#22. Another area where we can do better is in promoting partnerships. The proliferation of diplomatic partnerships, in my view, is one of the most significant strategic trends regionally and worldwide.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

#23. I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

Karl Lagerfeld

#24. It felt almost like a dream from long ago. I remembered another Ji-li, one who was always praised by her teachers and respected by her classmates. A Ji-li who always pushed herself to do better, achieve more.

Ji-li Jiang

#25. Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.

Ray Harryhausen

#26. Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

Robert Wilson

#27. the innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world'.62 Numerous experiments have shown that not only do rewards reduce motivation, they actually hamper our performance. In

Raoul Martinez

#28. I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#29. Poetry is more valuable than cricket, but Bradman would be a fool if he sacrificed his cricket in order to write second-rate minor poetry (and I suppose that it is unlikely that he could do better).

G.H. Hardy

#30. My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.

Amelia Earhart

#32. More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

Cory Booker

#33. Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death ...

Vaughn J. Featherstone

#34. I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

Ice Cube

#35. Anything you can do I can do better,
I can do anything better than you.

Irving Berlin

#36. Kid, you had a rough day. Everyone has them. And when you do - do what I do - you ask yourself: Anybody's life better because of what I did today? If the answer's yes . . . then stop your whining. If not, well, do better tomorrow.

Lodro Rinzler

#37. Destiny demands you do better than your supposed best.

Jack Kent Cooke

#38. After all, this situation, a similar one, is bound to roll around again, in a different context, a different history. Everything does. And the next time, will we (humankind) recognise it and do better?

Doris Lessing

#39. Never complain, condemn, or criticize; just show them how to do better.

Debasish Mridha

#40. The looks, the stares, the giggles ... I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

Magic Johnson

#41. If Prophets and Messengers are the closest to godliness as any human is capable of being, and yet even they fail, how the fuck can anyone, less than perfect, be so arrogant as to expect they will do better than a Prophet, or Messenger of G-D.

Alejandro C. Estrada

#42. most modern degrees and certifications demonstrate that you have passed some tests to demonstrate acceptable grasp of generic information. Big whoop. You can do better.

M.F. Stone

#43. Never set as your goal something that a dead person can do better than you.

Russ Harris

#44. The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

Martha Beck

#45. I believe single women should have more to do - better chances of interesting and profitable occupation than they possess now. And

Charlotte Bronte

#46. I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

Emily Mortimer

#47. We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

Eric Cantona

#48. You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.

Ashley Ormon

#49. Our nation has come so far since 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated, but I know we can do better to achieve The Dream, and that is why I keep marching on.

Charles B. Rangel

#50. One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.

Nicole Green

#51. To do better is better than to be perfect.

Toba Beta

#52. We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs.

Josh Dun

#53. I'm trying to do better than good enough.

Drake

#54. If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.

Madhuri Dixit

#55. He thought the police would have to do better; everyone knew the cult boys had more modern guns

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#56. Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Veronica Roth

#57. If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose,
If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you,
If you don't get drunk on my kiss,
If you think you can do better than this then I guess we're done.
Let's not drag this on,
Consider me gone ...

Reba McEntire

#58. We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

Thomas R. Insel

#59. Sometimes," he replies and pulls me into his arms, hugging me tight, "two people have to fall apart before they can realize how much they need to fall back together. And now that you know better, you can do better.

Kristen Proby

#60. I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.

Joseph Mawle

#61. Remind yourself every now and again that you can and will do better than your past & present performance.

Sarvesh Jain

#62. Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.

Ray Stubbs

#63. Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Julius Erving

#64. I visit her grave as often as I can. I leave bouquets of rosemary and rue, and I tell her that I'm sorry, and I promise her that next time I'll do better. Next time someone makes me a hero, I'll save them.

Seanan McGuire

#65. People don't mind being challenged to do better if they
know the request is coming from a caring heart

Ken Blanchard

#66. You call that begging? Oh, Kitten, you can do better than that ...

Jeaniene Frost

#67. I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?

Nicholas Kristof

#68. The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

John Podhoretz

#69. Get away from me, you wicked treat devil."
She laughs. "Wicked treat devil? Wow. You can do better than that."
"Evil dessert demon?"
"Still lame."
"Chocolate temptress of salty death."
"Now you're just reaching.

Chelsea Fine

#70. We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#71. After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

Ted Cruz

#72. You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

Wim Crouwel

#73. As Maya Angelou, American author, poet, and self-described Renaissance Woman, wrote, Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

L.R. Knost

#74. Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.

Toks Olagundoye

#75. Apparently I am pushing a jinx about the streets. I am certain that I can do better with some other wagon. A new cart, a new start.

John Kennedy Toole

#76. It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

Jim McKelvey

#77. It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.

Nick Denton

#78. We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.

Stephen J. Pasierb

#79. Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

Agnes Varda

#80. Cutting through the roar of the wind, the goddess Nike screamed from the stables: YOU CAN DO BETTER, STORM! GIVE ME A HUNDRED AND TEN PERCENT!

Rick Riordan

#81. It was no waste of time. You learned. You grew. You'll do better next time.

Toni Sorenson

#82. [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

William J. Clinton

#83. Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Erma Bombeck

#84. He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.

Russ Feingold

#85. And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents.

Caroline Kepnes

#86. Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Georges Bernanos

#87. I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

Bill Gates

#88. I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#89. Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All
the best poets write in rhyme."
"Really?"
"Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare. You can't do better than that.

Shiela Jane

#90. I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

Kevin Costner

#91. If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

James Surowiecki

#92. Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.

David McCullough

#93. Perfection does not exist
you can always do better and you can always grow.

Les Brown

#94. I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.

Serena Williams

#95. Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#96. I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility ... And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

Rick Moody

#97. You'll have to do better than that measly steel blade to make a dent in me.

Amy Plum

#98. Your question to me is about God, but boiled down to its essentials, it's not so different than most of the questions people ask me to answer. It says: This failed me and I want to do better next time. My answer will not be so different either: To do better you're going to have to try.

Cheryl Strayed

#99. Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.

Jojo Moyes

#100. These days, we are constantly reminded of the unspeakable acts of violence and damage we can inflict upon one another, not just with our actions, but also with our irresponsible words," he said.
"We're better than this," he said. "We must do better.

Scott Kelly