Top 100 Quotes About The Sooner The Better
#1. That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one's happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.
George Matthew Adams
#2. Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.
Winston Churchill
#3. Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
Richard Stallman
#4. It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.
Michael Leunig
#5. With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.
Marissa Mayer
#6. And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential - I know it.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#7. But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery - the sooner the better.
George Eliot
#8. Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
Swami Vivekananda
#10. Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.
Rush Limbaugh
#11. The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing ... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.
James Harris Simons
#12. the death penalty, and the sooner the better.
John Grisham
#13. No matter how long you live, no matter how mature or philosophical you may grow to be, almost all sudden enlightenment will feel precisely this way, like a boot in the stomach, like acid on your tongue, and the sooner you accept this the better off you'll be.
Ron Currie Jr.
#14. I liked the sea better than the earth and I sooner would've taken care of a snail than a baby.
Tiana Warner
#15. 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
#16. Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.
Alice Steinbach
#17. It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. Not fair." Grace put her hand on his shoulder and squeezed lightly. "Learn it, live it, love it. The sooner you make peace with the whole life's not fair thing, the better your life will be.
Katie Graykowski
#19. Maybe I shouldn't scare off my date so quickly by shooting guns and telling stories about vomit, but, hey, the sooner he knows the real me, the better.
Vicki Lesage
#20. The sooner you learn women rule this world, the better off you'll be.
Julia Crane
#21. You say that every morning."
Miles shrugged. "You're late every morning."
"Then wake me up sooner."
"I have a better idea - why don't you go to sleep when I tell you to?"
"I'm not tired then. I'm only tired in the mornings."
"Join the club.
Nicholas Sparks
#22. I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on YOU to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.""
Bernadette
Maria Semple
#23. A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.
John James Audubon
#24. He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.
Laini Taylor
#25. The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#26. Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
Samuel Johnson
#27. Ain't nothing in this life comes easy to any of us, child. Every road you walk down's got a price. Sooner you learn that the better. Don't matter the direction you go, there'll be some bad mixed in with the good and you just gotta learn to take the one with the other.
Victoria Forester
#28. There's no Saints; everyone lies. Everybody betrays everybody sooner or later too. The quicker you get that through your head, the better."
From "Hostages
Erik Hansen
#29. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.
Joseph Stilwell
#30. It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
Ella Maillart
#31. I could go around poking people in the eye with a sharp stick to keep them on their toes, but I'd probably be arrested sooner or later. Poetry is better. More lawful. Less bloody.
Frances Winkler
#32. The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.
Ram Dass
#33. Well, perhaps Falconer will be able to figure it out; he's usually a good judge of character. I say the sooner we reach the Heartland the better. I, for one, am eager to rid him of our 'boring' company
Nicole Sager
#34. I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.
Anthony Bourdain
#35. The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
Ian Botham
#36. I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and I think that probably the sooner critics and press outlets can just erase the 'what's it like being a women in rock?' question from their vocabulary, the better off everyone will be.
Annie E. Clark
#37. The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#38. There is value in every date and every relationship regardless of where it ends up. Not everyone is going to love you, and the sooner you can embrace that and be okay with it, the better off you will be in the dating minefield. The opinion of others doesn't make us who we are.
Cindy Johnson
#39. To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.
George Bernard Shaw
#40. When you regret something, what you aren't seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you're going to see why you didn't get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.
Bethenny Frankel
#41. Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
Ron Rash
#42. Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.
Jeff Cooper
#43. We all have nature and nurture to shape us. She can watch other people's opinions when she has opinions of her own, and no sooner. We're not digital creatures. We're flesh and blood. Better she learns that before the world finds her.
Pierce Brown
#44. Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Horatio Nelson
#45. 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
#46. A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.
Paule Marshall
#47. Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.
H. Allen Smith
#48. The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
Vincent Van Gogh
#49. Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#50. Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
Erik Erikson
#51. Don't ask me how he got here, or what he really is. I think we've all learned over the years that the sooner we accept the simple explanation for the unexplained, the better chance we have of surviving a crisis.
Christopher Moore
#52. The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
Jeremy Grantham
#53. I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better.
Neil Postman
#54. The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.
Joyce Meyer
#55. That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
Maria Semple
#56. Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
Greg Iles
#57. For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#58. In all honesty, as you grow older, you understand how important it is to give everything in every workout, training session and match. When you're younger, you think game and practice are different. The sooner you understand they aren't, the better.
Jozy Altidore
#59. The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
Lindsey Graham
#60. The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
Dave Winfield
#61. This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
John Sergeant Wise
#62. We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.
Walt Stanchfield
#63. Great leap forwards in mankind do not take place because of the economic values we place on them. They happen because we strive to do better and to be better. The sooner we break away from the 'if it makes money it must be good' mentality the better off we all shall be.
David Alejandro Fearnhead
#64. The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour
Charles Spurgeon
#65. And the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).
Richard Baxter
#66. Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.
Tim Hansel
#67. The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be ... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.
Granville Hicks
#68. The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.
Dickie Jeeps
#69. What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#70. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?
Candace Bushnell
#71. This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#72. ... Of his sins [Heavenly Father] does not want [man] to think [on them] too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better [Heavenly Father] is pleased.
C.S. Lewis
#73. Not to just say you need to be a good person - but, better, find the good that you already have in yourself and don't deny that, don't let the world talk you out of the good things because it's not hip or cool. Sooner or later, you have to live with yourself.
Martha Williamson
#74. In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the world was a dreadful place; I thought the sooner we all got off the planet, the better.
Mariella Frostrup
#75. Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
William, Saroyan
#76. If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.
Christopher Moore
#77. The sooner you start being fearless, the better.
L'Wren Scott
#78. Your future is always more valuable than today, the sooner you realise that the better
Steve Douglas
#79. I never go easy on kids when I play board games. The sooner they learn what the consequence of entering a competition is, the better. If they win, I punch them in the face like any adult.
Zach Braff
#80. The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.
Katie Couric
#81. Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
LZ Granderson
#82. With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.
Will Ferguson
#83. Do what we will, we are alone. The sooner we learn that, the better; and the more we are fit to be alone with ourselves, the more we are respectful to the individuality of others, and therefore the more we are fit to associate with our kind. This was a paradox she would have to learn for ourselves.
Howard Spring
#84. The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer
#85. Leafpaw, you and your sister aren't kits anymore. And you have chosen a very different path from hers, to be a medicine cat. You will always be friends, but you can't do everything together, and the sooner you both accept that, the better.
Erin Hunter
#86. The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
Laini Taylor
#87. Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
Simon Raven
#88. I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.
Veronica Roth
#89. Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
Simon Travaglia
#90. Sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
Irvin D. Yalom
#91. Life is tough, then you die. The sooner you accept that and move on with your life, the better off you'll be.
Michael Murphy
#92. If high ideals make a young man rude, the sooner he gets rid of them the better,
E. M. Forster
#93. Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off will be.
Alice Steinbach
#94. There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.
Jason Blum
#95. The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.
Georgia Harkness
#96. The sooner that Layla understands that we are nothing but the sum of that which we endure, the better.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#97. All of you have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
Chuck Jones
#98. Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
E. M. Forster
#99. Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.
Lisa Wingate
#100. He would joke around, make a few friends, pretend that nothing bothered him, but he always ended up running sooner or later. It was the only thing that made the pain better - feeling like he was moving, getting father and farther away.
Rick Riordan
