Top 100 Quotes About Something Better
#1. Why is it childish to want something better? asked Frank sulkily. It's like pretending to be content is the same as actually being content. I'm not going to pre tent. - Frank
Chris Priestley
#2. Don't waste your entire life always waiting for the end of the day, for the weekend, for summer, for things to
change, for something better. Enjoy as much of the present as you can. Now is happening. Now is good. Now belongs to you.
Emm Roy
#3. There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.
Mark Zuckerberg
#4. Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
Joyce Meyer
#5. If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
P.D. James
#6. Something good is a frontier; something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
Christopher Cross
#8. People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
#9. Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
Walter Darby Bannard
#10. If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.
Jane Wagner
#11. You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#12. Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff ... forms a base on which to build something better.
Jennifer Egan
#13. Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. If you want to do something better, do it with profound love.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge ...
George Soros
#16. The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
Jerry Pournelle
#17. If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.
Ed Catmull
#18. Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
Walter Darby Bannard
#19. Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
Pema Chodron
#20. If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?
Trip Hawkins
#21. This is your work now, Gian had thought, strewing death about him, but only live and some day, home again, turn your hand to something better, and in Sea-john life will be good, and safe, and full of love.
Kai Ashante Wilson
#22. To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.
Susan Sontag
#23. Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.
Leigh Bardugo
#24. Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.
Donna Farhi
#25. Never rest on past success. Create something better.
Ron Kaufman
#26. That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
Chuck Palahniuk
#28. I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in relgion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is toward happiness ...
Dalai Lama XIV
#29. Someone is always fighting for something, and they're always fighting for something better. Now, how that gets done is the true question.
Edwin Hodge
#30. Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.
Rob Brezsny
#31. His one big plan, oceanography, had gone sour on him; and then his plan turned into keeping his eyes open until something better came along.
Rainbow Rowell
#32. Every day, in some way, we're all being prepared for something better.
Cheryl Richardson
#33. At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.
Philip Reeve
#35. If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.
Nicky Gumbel
#36. God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.
Billy Graham
#37. You can hold any girl that you like
Fall in love when its easy at night
But you wake up wondering why
She aint ever something better
When youre lost and youve run out of road
Find what I already know
In the end close is all there is
But you wont find this
Carrie Underwood
#38. 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
#39. There is hope in our wanting to be something better, even if we never manage it. Maybe that is what I can hold to. The wanting.
Eowyn Ivey
#40. You can always hold out for something better when you know your self worth.
Bryant McGill
#41. What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.
Leslie Fiedler
#42. I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.
Stefan Sagmeister
#43. America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.
David Chang
#44. 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
#45. I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.
Drew Carey
#46. The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
Jay Roach
#47. I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'
What's that?'
I ... trust you.'
Why?'
You'll never hurt me.'
Thank you.'
But ... '
But, what?'
I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.'
Why?'
'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.
Avi
#48. I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.
George Shearing
#49. You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
Harlan Ellison
#50. You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better ... Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.
Geneen Roth
#51. In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#52. If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
Anna Julia Cooper
#53. Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see ... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.
Jonathan Ive
#54. Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?
Nicholas Sparks
#55. Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.
Michael Urie
#56. Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future.
Lara Adrian
#57. Love in full life and length, not love ideal,
No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name,
But something better still, so very real ...
George Gordon Byron
#58. You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Jodi Picoult
#59. Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, 'Where's the greater benefit in this event?'
Jack Canfield
#60. It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Honore De Balzac
#62. Criticizing and objecting to everything means an attempt to destruction. If you do not like something, try to make something better than it. Being destructive causes ruins, while being constructive brings about prosperity.
M. Fethullah Gulen
#63. Sometimes, you have to destroy something in order to build something better.
Brandon Sanderson
#64. Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.
Thomas Hughes
#65. I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.
George MacDonald
#66. We are hours and minutes reaching for the same second, holding hands as we spin forward into new days and the promise of something better.
Tahereh Mafi
#67. I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.
Peter M. Brant
#68. Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#69. Somewhere deep inside us we seem to know that we are destined for something better than strife.
Desmond Tutu
#70. People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for such things the desire for something better will awaken in them, and finally they will only care about the higher things.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#71. Maybe they're not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.
And that better thing is us.
Scott Westerfeld
#72. Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest.
Louise Candlish
#73. People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.
John Caudwell
#74. There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.
Richard Paul Evans
#75. Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.
J'son M. Lee
#76. Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.
Frederick Barthelme
#77. everything works out for the best and that every reverse in life carries the seeds of something better in the future.
Mary Beth Brown
#78. You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better
Tyler Perry
#79. And although she wasn't a girl of faith, she somehow always knew if one thing prevented her from doing something it was because something better was in store for her. She trusted life.
Sarah Noffke
#80. Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.
Saint Augustine
#81. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.
T. S. Eliot
#82. Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown
#83. If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had going on, then that's Beast Mode. It's an accomplishment, that you put yourself through something to get something better out of it. I feel that that's Beast Mode.
Marshawn Lynch
#84. Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.
Chuck Palahniuk
#85. THE INTENTION OF LIFE IS NOT TO REMAIN, BUT TO EVOLVE TO SOMETHING BETTER THAN IT WAS BEFORE AT EVERY STAGE, AND FINALLY, TO SOMETHING WONDERFUL.
James Bergson
#86. Everything that is engenders, sooner or later, nightmares. Let us try, therefore, to invent something better than being.
Emil Cioran
#87. You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
Eugene V. Debs
#88. There is a sort of magic in striking a match and lighting a cigarette, the way the match flares and the tobacco singes, the way the smoke rises in curls, that feeling of peace as the nicotine hits the back of the throat. I will give up smoking when they invent something better than smoking.
Chloe Thurlow
#89. I can finish that off and get you something better," he offered.
"You'd eat my leftovers? ... " I felt like such a prima donna. "You're a king."
"I'm a ... hungry ... king," he shrugged, as he unassumingly glanced to the side. "I'm not picky.
M.A. George
#90. Every human being deserves something better than having their lives dismissed in a flood of simplistic rhetoric, posturing and crass political point-scoring.
Munjed Al Muderis
#91. You look back and you always think you can probably do something better.
Tommy Haas
#92. If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.
Debasish Mridha
#93. I'm sure you could distract me with something better than hand holding, sugar." He winked, then winced and sucked in a breath. "Holy f-f-f-f-fire truck. I think you just stitched my kidney.
Eden Summers
#94. Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.
Linus Torvalds
#95. Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
Steve Maraboli
#96. Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#97. Each of us finds his way, his place; we rattle around the universe until everything fits; this is life; this is science, or something better than science.
Gene Wolfe
#98. You'll have to let go and wait for something better.'
'What if there isn't anything better?'
'There's always something better.
O.E. Boroni
#99. Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better
Roberto Bolano
#100. When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.
Jonathan Hickman
