Top 100 The Better Quotes
#1. In the process of being a lady from a girl ... I understood that the White Knight, the Prince Charming and the Bad Guy are kind of same. You cant distinguish them by how they look or behave and often the Bad Guy has the better dressing sense.
Upasana Banerjee
#2. Even of his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased.
C.S. Lewis
#4. 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
#5. Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.
James Altucher
#6. In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.
Neil Strauss
#7. There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.
Clark Gregg
#8. This is an important rule: a good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.
Eric Ries
#10. I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.
Rain Phoenix
#11. What black eyes you have ... "
"All the better to devour you with.
Krista Ritchie
#12. Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.
Lynn Schusterman
#13. It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.
Logan Lerman
#15. I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things the weirder the better. The idea I could eat things like snails or frogs legs or things like that was mind-blowingly cool.
Graham Elliot
#16. The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better
Dennis Prager
#17. The better question to ask yourself is: How to correct your diet so you can start losing weight?
Vinnie Tortorich
#18. the death penalty, and the sooner the better.
John Grisham
#19. It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can change (for the better)? That history is an arc and it bends toward justice, even if it is long?
Kelly J. Cogswell
#20. The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
Sydney Madwed
#22. The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.
Janet McTeer
#23. Life should be about changing for the better. If you have to let go of some people along the way, then go right ahead.
Krystal Volney
#24. I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.
Tim Johnson
#25. The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.
David Eddings
#26. The more specific your questions the better. If you feel that you can't really continue the conversation without asking questions, you need to ask specific questions.
Patrick King
#27. She thought the flat would be all the better for some photographs, not only to serve as reminders of those who were loved, or reflections of happy times spent in company, but to act as mirrors, where she might see the affection with which she was held by those dear to her.
Jacqueline Winspear
#28. In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.
Jean Seberg
#29. I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now ... being a bit wilder maybe!
Liam Payne
#30. I always liked to put on a tie. The more you look like an executive, the better treated you are. It catches people by surprise.
Don Wright
#31. When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.
Jonathan Dee
#32. 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
#33. The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#34. To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.
Toni Morrison
#36. The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.
Jesse James Garrett
#37. The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
Seneca The Younger
#38. And so - if it's shame, let it be shame, if it's disgrace, let it be disgrace, if it's degradation, let it be degradation, and the worse, the better - that's what I chose.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#39. If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Samuel Johnson
#41. One way to become creative is to discipline yourself to generate bad ideas. The worse the better. Do it a lot and magically you'll discover that some good ones slip through.
Seth Godin
#42. The more connected you are to the work, the better it is.
Jesse Peyronel
#43. I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.
Henry Rollins
#44. The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
Thomas A Kempis
#45. In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.
John Wooden
#46. The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people. (Chapter 17)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#47. I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
Jesse Jackson
#49. Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.
Betsy Byars
#50. When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
Robin Leach
#51. In a way, comedy is like sex. The more noise you hear, the better you think you're doing.
Ray Romano
#52. Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#53. Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.
Joe Abercrombie
#55. Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?
Colson Whitehead
#56. Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall.
Frederick Buechner
#57. In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
Robert Sternberg
#58. So much of who I was then I'm not today, I've changed for the better through the years, I've grown spiritually. I look at people differently, everyone is unique in their own special way
Shellie Palmer
#59. 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
#60. When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.
Condoleezza Rice
#61. But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Ron White
#62. In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
Brian Ferneyhough
#63. That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.
Markus Zusak
#64. 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
#65. But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery - the sooner the better.
George Eliot
#66. The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no erosion, no wind, and no liquid water on the moon, craters can remain perfectly visible for billions of years, an orbiting catalog of impacts.
Craig Childs
#67. As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#68. I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns.
George Galloway
#69. Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
Philip Schaff
#71. The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.
Wilhelm Steinitz
#72. I thought yesterday would never end. There was over me a yearning for sleep in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must now be for the better.
Bram Stoker
#73. Patience is the better part of valor. And obedience the better part of humanity. Listen to your elders.
Pierce Brown
#74. Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.
Heikki Kovalainen
#75. Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.
Carlos Wallace
#76. I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
Jane Porter
#77. Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.
Steve Winwood
#78. I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.
Ted Williams
#79. If there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.
Jose Saramago
#80. Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.
Owen Feltham
#81. So love is like a test,but in what sense?To what end?Who was carrying out the test?But I think I did believe that Love had immense power to unearth all that was good in us,refine us and reveal to us the better versions of ourselves.
Ayobami Adebayo
#82. A better life can only come when the consciousness of men is altered for the better; and therefore, those who wish to improve life must direct all their efforts towards changing both their own and other people's consciousness.
Leo Tolstoy
#83. What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.
Roger L'Estrange
#84. Casey was the better team and the better team won.
Bill Evans
#85. I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the wilderness, or trying desperately to get there.
Wil S. Hylton
#86. Safety and security stifle creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. But then I create to live of it safe and secure one day!
Nathan Haddish Mogos
#87. The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
Philip K. Dick
#88. Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade ... every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each!
Ron Paul
#89. You have to decide what level you want to participate in your children's lives. The more you do, the better your relationship is going to be. You have to listen to your instincts. You know when it's time to lay down the law.
Laird Hamilton
#90. 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
#91. Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
Brian K. Vaughan
#92. I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.
Lita Ford
#93. Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz
#94. Think reds, orange, yellows, greens, purple, blue - the darker and deeper the colors, the better they are for you.
Rick Warren
#95. It's called the pump, people - you got to experience it; it's one of the better highs in life, you don't need to shoot up for it, you don't need to snort it. All you got to do is sweat for it.
Greg Plitt
#96. It's important to remember that school is about our students, not us, so the more we can empower them to be in control of their learning, the better.
Starr Sackstein
#97. I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.
Antonin Scalia
#98. You are a toolbox, and you have to add stuff to it and build on it. I think the more tools you have, the better life gets." "I like that idea." "That's my mission in life. To keep adding to the toolbox.
Lang Leav
#99. Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses another. That is a truth which establishes itself and precludes any discussion: you are rich and I am poor.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#100. Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at Vaubyessard, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in. But
Gustave Flaubert
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