Better Quotes

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

~ Samuel Johnson

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

~ Michelle Bachelet

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

~ Jane Wiedlin

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

~ Paul Dirac

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

~ John B. S. Haldane

When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.

~ Blake Mciver Ewing

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

~ Noel Gallagher

Everyone one-on-one will be completely honest about the music that they listen to. But then you get into a group situation, and then it's the cool/uncool debate. I have really done my very best to reinforce the very fact that your heart knows better than your head does what you like when it comes to music and what not.

~ Corey Taylor

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

~ Meat Loaf

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

~ Geddy Lee

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

~ James Joyce

I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.

~ Liam Payne

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

~ Marvin Hamlisch

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

~ Charles Kennedy

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

~ Chuck Close

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

~ Bonnie Raitt

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

~ Michael D. Higgins

No man is ever old enough to know better.

~ Holbrook Jackson

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

~ William Blake

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

~ Henry David Thoreau

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

~ Ben Hecht

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

~ Colin Powell

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

~ Caprice Bourret

Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

~ Dick Van Dyke

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

~ Bono

I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better.

~ Juliette Lewis

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

~ Christina Ricci

I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.

~ Derek Jeter

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

~ Marc Andreessen

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

~ Lewis Thomas

'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

~ George Edward Woodberry

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

~ Julius Charles Hare

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

~ Erin Gray

Which, autocracy or democracy, is really better suited to modern China? If we base our judgment upon the intelligence and the ability of the Chinese people, we come to the conclusion that the sovereignty of the people would be far more suitable for us.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

~ Prince Andrew

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

~ Robert Sternberg

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.

~ Rick Perlstein