Top 100 To Be Better Quotes
#1. Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.
Paul Davies
#2. William is the most skilled protector that I have ever seen. He is the best." Determination began to swell inside of me.
"Then I will have to be better." Margo Westly
Meredith T. Taylor
#3. I'm scared. What will tomorrow bring? It has to be better than today. It has to.
Julie Anne Peters
#4. I want to be better."
"Then be better. Accept the fact that God didn't bring you this far only to abandon you. He isn't that kind of father. And you won't be either.
Sylvain Reynard
#5. In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
Edward Tatum
#6. Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.
Jesse Michaels
#7. The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.
Kobe Bryant
#8. Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.
Anne Robinson
#9. A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.
Giovanni Ribisi
#10. When I look at you," Cade told her, "I see every fucking dream I've ever had. You make me want to be better, for you.
Cynthia Eden
#11. At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.
Seth Godin
#12. The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
Damien Hirst
#13. When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to be better." When the man's traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn't do the work with her. That's a lost opportunity for her to be a success.
Sheryl Sandberg
#14. To be better than 31 other teams, you better be a really good team. It's just not about one person.
Jeffrey Lurie
#15. What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
Samuel Johnson
#16. Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.
James Hillman
#17. I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.
Howard Stern
#18. A team that is always fun with witty sense of humor. We help each other around a lot and help push each other to be better
Min
#19. Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow.
Dean Koontz
#20. Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.
Edward Kitsis
#21. Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
John Wooden
#22. In life you have friends and enemies, both can motivate you to be better.
Coleen Innis
#23. It is the mistaken idea that if I reward mediocrity, I will curtail the person's aspirations to be better. That is a commonly held myth that keeps some parents from verbally affirming children. Of course, it's untrue.
Gary Chapman
#24. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact.
Joe Abercrombie
#25. Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
Alain De Botton
#26. 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
#27. I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don't want to take up space. They're going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.
Ashton Kutcher
#28. You can't apologize for my feelings and expect things to be better." He paused. "Especially not when you're the reason for them.
Julie Murphy
#29. So go ahead and face that fear, make that effort, move forward into new territory and fully live the grand possibilities with which you're blessed. Boldly face life, and you'll find it to be better than you ever imagined.
Ralph Marston
#30. I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.
Emmylou Harris
#31. I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
inside me
for longer than you know;
I do not know
what they are
or why they are there,
I only know
that they feel
manageable,
defeatable,
when I
am around
You.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#32. I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in life should be so regimented that you're not having fun or can't enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you.
Carrie Ann Inaba
#33. I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
Ed Belfour
#34. I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just ... going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it. - Marcus
Dan Wells
#35. Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
Nelson Mandela
#36. Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?
Kevin Garnett
#37. Successful people love what they do and feel compelled t express the best that is within them. They don't strive to be better than their neighbors or contemporaries they strive to be better than themselves.
Brian Souza
#38. Think meanly of me, Lina," said he. "Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea; I make no pretension to be better than my fellows.
Charlotte Bronte
#39. I don't know what would I have done without you in this difficult time for me and indeed, you are right, things happen for a reason and even mistakes help us to be better.
Auliq Ice
#40. I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'
Steve Perry
#41. Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That's why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.
Lou Ferrigno
#42. You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better, not one where you're expecting things to be worse.
Elon Musk
#43. Nothing ever stayed the same. But tomorrow had to be better.
M.J. Haag
#44. I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.
Aidan Chambers
#45. The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
Jack Antonoff
#46. The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
Simon Sinek
#47. If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.
Jonathan Ive
#48. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.
Jim Butcher
#49. One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal.
Madonna Ciccone
#50. I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.
Debasish Mridha
#51. My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.
Mark Lawrenson
#53. Okay, why couldn't he just be drinking right now? Still, bassinet jockeying one of these pooping machines had to be better than dodging bullets.
Right?
V glanced at the matched set of milk addicts. Fine, maybe the goo-goo, gaga/Glock assessment was more of a fifty-fifty.
J.R. Ward
#54. A man who endeavored to be better was already superior to the men who claimed to be great.
Penelope Douglas
#55. The pessimist's nostalgia, deteriorism goes far beyond simply whining that things used to be better and takes the bold stance that the world is actively and energetically going to hell in a handbasket. also
Ammon Shea
#56. Every day gives you an opportunity to improve. With every run, you can try to be better. Not just a better runner, but a better person.
John Bingham
#57. I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.
Marc Jacobs
#58. If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
Elon Musk
#59. There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#60. Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.
Ahmad Shamlou
#61. You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.
Akiva Schaffer
#62. Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson
#63. The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
Henry Ward Beecher
#64. You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success ... I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
Dan Jansen
#65. If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.
Bill Walton
#66. As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.
Eric Hernandez
#67. This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.
Tom Robbins
#68. After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.
Phil Keoghan
#69. I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.
Frances Lear
#70. There is a difference between obsessive perfectionism and taking time to create something that is the best you can offer. Knowing what needs to be better and stretching to improve yourself is what separates the mediocre from the marvelous.
Suzanna Reeves
#71. I want it to be better than okay. You deserve better than okay.
Tammara Webber
#72. I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.
Christopher Hitchens
#73. Just be with me. Please. We don't have much time left. And I have the strongest feeling that having part of you is going to be better than having all of anybody else." I
Leisa Rayven
#74. You can't keep putting out the same record, it has to be better than the last thing you did. You have to find out what sucks, you have to stop doing what sucks ... you've gotta find out what you're doing right, and you've gotta do more of that.
Jordan Buckley
#75. He changed me. He helped me see who I really was and realize that I didn't like that person. He made me want to be different. He made me want to be better to myself and everyone else.
Ashley Uzzell
#76. I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
Thomas Kretschmann
#77. To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes.
Hale Irwin
#78. There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.
Jane Goodall
#79. The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.
Dalai Lama XIV
#80. I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now
Kerri Walsh
#81. I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.
Tim Hetherington
#82. It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.
Michelle Yeoh
#83. I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.
Jackie Kay
#84. Over the longer term, we need to work toward a pro-growth tax code that is fairer and simpler than what we have now. Anything that meets those criteria is going to be better than the failing and dysfunctional tax code we have today.
Joni Ernst
#85. I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.
Jack Kirby
#86. What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.
Herb Brooks
#88. I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Seneca The Younger
#89. My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
Alain Resnais
#90. I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.
Dolly Parton
#91. I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.
Sandra Bullock
#92. No, the hurts of the mind were too strange, too invisible, too magical to hope for the same kind of tolerance and help from even the best of people. It frightens me, thought DeAnne. Why should I expect others to be better than I am?
Orson Scott Card
#93. We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
Pierce Brosnan
#94. Incidentally, I really agree with those who say that the capacity to forgive says something about the essential quality of a person. I'm the lowest grade.'
'I didn't mean to criticize you.'
'I promise to be better in my next life ...
Jo Nesbo
#95. It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry
#96. You don't have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy.
Andre Agassi
#97. To be a butch girl in high school, to be better at masculinity than all the men around you, and then to be punished for it!
Michelle Tea
#98. Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.
Demi Lovato
#99. but he just keeps showing up in my head, forcing me to work harder whenever I feel like quitting, forcing me to be better.
Randy Pausch
#100. Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.
Grace Gealey
