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Quotes About Better

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.
~ Diane Kruger
If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
~ Dalai Lama
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.
~ Peter Lynch
I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.
~ Unknown
The idea that growth is by itself a goal is altogether a delusion. There is no virtue in a company's getting bigger. The right goal is to become better. Growth, to be sound, should be the result of doing the right things. By itself, growth is vanity and little else.
~ Peter F. Drucker
The world thinks men are good and saints are better. Pascal knows men are sinners and saints are miracles.
~ Peter Kreeft
Most individual investors would be better off in an index mutual fund.
~ Peter Lynch
For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad. But
~ Peter Robinson
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
~ Philip K. Dick
I did not find God in the Prox system. But I found something better. God promises eternal life. I can do better; I can deliver it.
~ Philip K. Dick
As if that in some way made it better, that fate hadn't planned it weeks in advance.
~ David Levithan
Some days I'm up for the challenge. Some days I need to catch my breath. But it's a long story we're writing. Even on the days when it's hard, I know that someday it will be better.
~ David Levithan
Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
~ David Mamet
Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?
~ Yann Martel
Never had she been filled with so much reckless magnanimity. It was one of the discomfiting paradoxes of her adultery: sin had made her a better person.
~ Zoë Heller
At certain times during your career, at different ages, you feel better than others.
~ Clint Dempsey
History is, or ought to be, what it was; while romance ought to be "the better world," as was said by Mme. Necker, one of the most distinguished thinkers of the last century.
~ Honore de Balzac
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.
~ Unknown
I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place
~ Howard Gardner
If there is a next life yes, I have that hope, for it to be kinder. But probably whatever notion you come up with will be better than anything I could come up with. I'm in a constant state of uncertainty.
~ Unknown
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.
~ Iain M. Banks
Wisdom Sufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.
~ Idries Shah