Better Quotes

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish I'd had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.