Better Quotes

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

~ Oscar Wilde

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

~ Benito Mussolini

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

~ Chris Klein

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

~ Charles Bukowski

I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.

~ Katherine Johnson

A good example is far better than a good precept.

~ Dwight L. Moody

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

~ Wendell Berry

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

~ Enrico Fermi

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

~ Mae West

Better is the enemy of good.

~ Voltaire

He who stops being better stops being good.

~ Oliver Cromwell

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

~ Amelia Earhart

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

~ Alveda King

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

~ Aaron Paul

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

~ John Mason Brown

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

~ Brendan Gill

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

~ Steve Lacy

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

~ Winston Churchill

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

~ Doug Larson

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

~ William O. Douglas

I always think I look better after a yoga class. It's the same as a massage. We look so amazing after a massage because we're relaxed.

~ Andie Macdowell

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.

~ Norm Crosby

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

~ Pericles

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

~ Elon Musk

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

~ Michael Ende

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

~ Albert Camus

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

~ Joyce Meyer

Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.

~ Joel Burns

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.

~ Ed Markey

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

~ Orison Swett Marden

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

~ Richard Burton

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

~ Euripides

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

~ Ang Lee

I got the chance to be the secretary of state I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

~ Condoleezza Rice

I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

~ Harry Styles

But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.

~ Steve Spurrier

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

~ Dwight Gooden

Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.

~ Samuel Witwer

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

~ Jonathan Edwards

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'

~ Neale Donald Walsch