Better Quotes

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.