Top 100 Quotes About The Better Man
#1. Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.
Dan Harris
#2. I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?
Zach Braff
#3. War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
Elbert Hubbard
#4. The face that feigns acknowledgment that the better man got the promotion, even though deep down you and they both know that you really are the better man and that the best man is the woman on the second floor.
Paul Beatty
#5. I understand that I may not be, may never be, the better man, but I also understand that I love you and I will never let you go again.
Mandy Lou Dowson
#6. Simple Pleasures
Life is all about the simple pleasures
so I passed on the multilingual GPS option
on the my Bentley Continental GTZ Zagato
and felt the better man for it.
Beryl Dov
#7. I despise that he knows it and I don't. Makes him the better man for her in this situation. I want to be the better man for her in every situation.
Karen Marie Moning
#8. The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.
Gregory David Roberts
#10. You showed mercy, Kaz. You were the better man."
There she went again, seeking decency when there was none to be had. "Inej, I could only kill Pekka's son once." He pushed the door open with his cane. "He can imagine his death a thousand times.
Leigh Bardugo
#11. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
John Steinbeck
#12. Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better - in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.
Larry McMurtry
#13. The world would be a better place for man, if man were not in it.
Allyson Jones
#14. There never was an overseer on the whole plantation. The oldest colored man always looked after the niggers. We niggers lived better than the niggers on the other plantations.
Norman R. Yetman
#15. Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
Erich Fromm
#16. A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.
Thucydides
#17. Every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.
Louis De Bernieres
#18. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
#19. If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by
Hanshan
#20. It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
Vijay Singh
#21. When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
Dan Totheroh
#22. The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
William, Saroyan
#23. If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda
#24. For a man under suspicion movement is better than rest, for the man who is at rest can always, without knowing it, be on the scales being weighed together with his sins.
Franz Kafka
#25. Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.
T.H. White
#26. Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn't always mean that it's not the right direction for both of them.
Mark Lawrence
#28. There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. Orpheus. Had the name he had taken ever suited him better? But he would be wilier than the singer whose name he had stolen. He would indeed. He would send another man into the realm of Death in the Fire-Dancer's place-and he'd make sure that he didn't come back.
Cornelia Funke
#30. We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
Sydney Pollack
#31. If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.
Dalia Mogahed
#32. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.
Alice Walsh
#34. It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
Walter Raleigh
#35. What man is a man who does not make the world better?
John Eldredge
#36. Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower.
Van Jones
#37. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it
Benjamin Franklin
#38. It is almost better to tell your own lies than somebody else's truth; in the first case you are a man, in the second you are no better than a parrot!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#39. There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics ... Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's.
D. James Baker
#40. I wanted not the favor of man to lean upon; for I knew Christ's favor was infinitely better, and that it was no matter when, nor where, nor how Christ should send me, nor what trials He should still exercise me with, if I might be prepared for His work and will.
Jonathan Edwards
#41. We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
Eden Phillpotts
#42. For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Quintilian
#43. One thing I will say, they often take it better than a man. Pain, that is. Probably the residue of tolerance from when they were all bloody witches and got stoned or burned or drowned for it, eh lad? Never tell your mother I said that, by the way.
Sarah Hall
#44. There is no masculine psychology in my cinema. There is only the resentments and desires of women. A man should not attempt to recognize himself in my male characters. On the other hand, he can find [in the films] a better understanding of women. And knowledge of the other is the highest goal.
Catherine Breillat
#45. when a man's said what he means, he'd better stop, for th' ale 'ull be none the better for stannin'. An
George Eliot
#46. The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
Charles Dickens
#47. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
George Eliot
#48. The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
Henry Ward Beecher
#49. No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
Bobby Jones
#50. The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
Jose Saramago
#51. Man is the being who needs a social life in order to secure mutual well-being. This has brought him much comfort. If man can generate this social life worldwide, it will be much better.
Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
#52. Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.
Tim Allen
#53. Well, if getting to the bottom is what is called for, I am sure there is no man better for the job.
Amor Towles
#54. I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.
Alice Moore Hubbard
#55. It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.
Theodore Roosevelt
#56. What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
Ludwig Von Mises
#57. He actually looks very apologetic, but I know better than to trust the expression on a man's face. The only things worth trusting are actions, and so far he hasn't proven very trustworthy.
Colleen Hoover
#59. The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.
Richard Misrach
#60. There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.
Henry Ward Beecher
#61. 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
#62. You are the most amazing man I've ever met and I love you so much I sometimes feel like I can't contain it inside my chest. Don't ever say I deserve better. You are the best there is.
M. Leighton
#63. Every man had to walk through a dark, starless night and, when he faced the morning, he'd be better for it.
Margaret Weis
#64. I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan
#65. O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils
Joseph Alleine
#66. Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.
Herman Melville
#67. Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.
Hermann Broch
#68. At least I had my memories of him bare ass naked to keep me happy in the meantime. And trust me, there was real happiness to be had in having seen this man naked. My dreams had better be full of him, or I and my subconscious would be having a serious talk.
Kylie Scott
#69. A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future
Wogu Donald
#70. That morning, lying with the woman I loved, a silent promise was formed in my head. I was going to be a better man for her, someone she deserved. No more flying off the handle. No more temper tantrums, or violent outbursts.
Jamie McGuire
#71. When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!
Andrea Bocelli
#72. Son, how violent is yer woman?" The older man asked sounding curious. Aiden leaned in and whispered. "She knocked me unconscious once with the back of my toilet." The older man's eyes widened. "Better get you some chocolate bars. You can throw those from a distance." Aiden nodded.
Anonymous
#73. 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
#74. Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#75. Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
Pliny The Elder
#76. The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a good beef sandwich. Still it was plentiful, even if you did have to pick your way through half of it to get to something recognizable.
Nora Roberts
#77. America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other
achievements amount to nothing.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#78. Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Winston Churchill
#79. Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.
Auberon Herbert
#80. The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord
"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#81. Crooks avoided the whole subject now. "Maybe you guys better go," he said. "I ain't sure I want you in here no more. A colored man got to have some rights even if he don't like 'em.
John Steinbeck
#82. I really couldn't see what the Socs would have to sweat about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky.
I know better now.
S.E. Hinton
#83. Perry, Jeremy, Man, Just knowing that you guys look up to me, And I can help you out so much, I could pull you to the side when we're working out. And just as much as you think I'm making you better, You elevate my game.
Kevin Durant
#84. He wanted to be a man she admired. The way he admired her. He wanted her to think of him as brave. He wanted to be better because of her, and for her.
He was better because of her. She'd changed him irrevocably.
Julie Anne Long
#85. Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.
Brian Koppelman
#86. Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love
the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.
Woody Allen
#87. While to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. And such I think I have become.
Oscar Wilde
#88. Do you remember back when you felt you could actually do something to make the world better?" "You're talking to the wrong man. I work for central government, remember? Actually doing something is the mistake we're trained to avoid.
Chris Cleave
#89. It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character ... Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.
Archibald Rutledge
#90. They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.
T.E. Lawrence
#91. When a man's over head and shoulders in debt, he may live the faster for it, and the better if he goes the right way about it, or else how is it so many live so well, as we see every day after they are ruined?
Maria Edgeworth
#92. There's only one creature in the world better than the man who is a thoroughbred. It is the woman who is a thoroughbred.
Anonymous
#93. Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#94. A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
Vance Havner
#95. Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.
Charles Spurgeon
#96. Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.
John J. Raskob
#97. A real man wants to know how to make his woman moan and takes up the challenge of keepin' that up and makin' it better
Kristen Ashley
#98. If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin
Then mister you're a better man than I
Steven Tyler
#99. You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?
Daniel Clowes
#100. In that one glimpse of a better nature, born as it was in selfish thoughts, the rich man felt himself friendless, childless, and alone.
Charles Dickens
