Top 100 To Do Better Quotes
#1. I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.
Bryce Wilson
#2. It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
Gianni Versace
#3. A stumble may be helpful, because it shows me where I need to concentrate my efforts in order to do better next time.
Gretchen Rubin
#4. I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.
Kevin Spacey
#5. Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.
Eric Bolling
#6. I've been dealing with pressure all life long. Coming from a very poor family in Haiti, moving to Paris, a new place, a new culture, a new language. I used that pressure to adapt, to do better than everyone else, and I moved around quite a bit as well.
Jimmy Jean-Louis
#7. We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.
Helen Zille
#8. We can do better, and we must hold the politicians accountable to do better.
Ami Bera
#9. He had to do better. He had to be more equitable.
Because Jane Burke was counting upon him. And she was still holding his hand. And he liked it.
Elizabeth Essex
#10. The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard
#11. I don't look at rushes, or I don't go to the dailies. I don't even really look at playback ... unless it's an action scene or a move that I need to do better, something like that.
Saoirse Ronan
#12. Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#13. Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.
Tinie Tempah
#14. You want your kids to do better than you did," he said. "That's what the American Dream is all about. But it's hard when they outgrow you. It hurts like hell.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#15. I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs
#16. God doesn't expect perfection. All he asks is that we learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. He forgives us far more easily than we often forgive ourselves. He also heals the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed.
Irene Hannon
#17. But next time, mind groping me a little more? No one's ever going to believe we're madly passionate about each other with your hands not even grabbing my ass. I mean, seriously. You'll have to do better.
Eve Langlais
#18. The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
Lucy Powell
#19. There are people that say they will do better but they never do better. They have no power in them to do better until they come to Christ.
Billy Graham
#20. I'm always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.
David Wright
#21. Every time you make a mistake, don't bring up everything that's wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you're paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
John C. Maxwell
#22. Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Zig Ziglar
#23. Now that you have the knowledge of the gospel, you're called to do better.
Mike Glenn
#24. If your absence doesn't motivate them to do better, then your presence never will.
Stephan Labossiere
#25. I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.
Paul Auster
#26. I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it.
CeCe Winans
#28. The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage.
Paulo Coelho
#29. I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"
Richard Simmons
#30. We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.
Shaquille O'Neal
#31. Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.
Frank Drake
#32. I've nothing against faith, Lukas, as long as it gives people spiritual support, comforts them, inspires them to do better.
Hanni Munzer
#33. I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.
Marcus Samuelsson
#34. It's great to be recognized for work, and the work is great, but once you have the awards, it becomes less important. It just gives you the ability to do better work, in my opinion.
Janusz Kaminski
#35. This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.
Barack Obama
#36. I've been trying to do better about killing people," Lynn said. "Then fate puts you in my path.
Mindy McGinnis
#37. I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
Jean-Claude Killy
#38. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
#39. To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
Katy Butler
#40. Yet there was something intoxicating about a teacher who had such absolute confidence - faith, really - in my ability to do better. Whatever I managed to achieve, he expected more.
Joanne Lipman
#41. I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole
#42. Real leaders are people who help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
David Foster Wallace
#43. We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better.
Vishal Sikka
#44. I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.
Linda Evangelista
#45. To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch
#46. Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.
Ryan Lilly
#47. I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron ... I should have been able to do better.
Ezra Pound
#48. All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.
Selena Gomez
#49. We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.
Josh Silver
#50. Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
Edwin Louis Cole
#51. I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.
Jennifer Phang
#53. Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.
Robert Griffin III
#54. You're going to have to do better than that if you want to get into my metaphysical pants.
Allison Pang
#55. I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better.
Jay Woodman
#56. Our only consolation, as we feel our own strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves, fixing their eyes as they can on the great horizons of which we only had a glimpse," pronounced Pasteur, with characteristic gallantry. Many
Bill Wasik
#57. I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.
James Altucher
#58. It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.
Sheri Fink
#59. The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
Beth Simone Noveck
#60. My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.
Joe Lhota
#61. Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.
Swami Vivekananda
#62. Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?
Rachel Caine
#63. I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.
Seth Godin
#64. It felt almost like a dream from long ago. I remembered another Ji-li, one who was always praised by her teachers and respected by her classmates. A Ji-li who always pushed herself to do better, achieve more.
Ji-li Jiang
#65. the innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world'.62 Numerous experiments have shown that not only do rewards reduce motivation, they actually hamper our performance. In
Raoul Martinez
#66. I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#67. My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. Never complain, condemn, or criticize; just show them how to do better.
Debasish Mridha
#69. The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.
Martha Beck
#70. I believe single women should have more to do - better chances of interesting and profitable occupation than they possess now. And
Charlotte Bronte
#71. We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
Eric Cantona
#72. One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.
Nicole Green
#73. To do better is better than to be perfect.
Toba Beta
#74. We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs.
Josh Dun
#75. I'm trying to do better than good enough.
Drake
#76. He thought the police would have to do better; everyone knew the cult boys had more modern guns
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#77. Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
Veronica Roth
#78. I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.
Joseph Mawle
#79. People don't mind being challenged to do better if they
know the request is coming from a caring heart
Ken Blanchard
#80. After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
Ted Cruz
#81. EAMES: Try this... "MY FATHER ACCEPTS THAT I WANT TO CREATE FOR MYSELF, NOT FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS."
COBB: That might work.
ARTHUR: Might? We'll have to do better than that.
EAMES: Thanks for the contribution, Arthur.
ARTHUR: Forgive me for wanting a little specificity, Eames.
Christopher J. Nolan
#82. The more the responsibility and expectations on me, the more I like it. I always love to accept challenges, I get an added inspiration to do better. Tough challenges always help to bring out the best in me.
Mushfiqur Rahim
#83. My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
Anna Deavere Smith
#84. Regulations force people to do better.
Jay Leno
#85. There's no such thing as the very best. If you're doing your best, it's only because you haven't yet found a way to do better.
Ron Kaufman
#86. We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things - our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we're not going to do better.
Dan Ariely
#87. One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.
JoAnn Ross
#88. He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.
Russ Feingold
#89. I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#90. I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.
Kevin Costner
#91. If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.
James Surowiecki
#92. I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.
Serena Williams
#93. It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.
Jim McKelvey
#94. We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Kofi Annan
#95. To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better - to improve on the ideas of others.
Scott Douglas
#96. Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.
Samuel Johnson
#97. So many of us get caught up into the race game that we forget that in the end we are just people trying to do better for ourselves and our families. My father use to have a saying, that in order to be great you have to do great things that change the world of people around you.
D.E. Rogers
#98. I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#99. I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
Phil McGraw
#100. There isn't anything I wanted to do that I haven't. At the same time, there isn't anything I've ever done that I didn't want to do better.
Richard Rodgers
