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Better Quotes

On growth, progress and making things better.

These quotes range from finishing a piece of writing that finally feels worth sharing to teamwork producing stronger results than working alone, with a side note on technology's uneven effect on security. For more, see our Growth quotes.

As for pupils, I can have as many as I choose, but I do not choose to take many. I intend to be better paid than others, and so I wish to have fewer scholars. It is advisable to hang...

Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Winston Churchill

What is your duty to a country? Do you follow it blindly? Or do you challenge your country to be better and stand up to the ideals that all men are created equal and everyone deserves equity, not just equality?

Quotes by Winston Duke

Investment will lead to employment; employment means better income; it means selling more cars.

Quotes by Winfried Vahland

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

Quotes by Wilma Mankiller

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

Quotes by Wilma Mankiller

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them...

Quotes by Willie McCovey

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Quotes by Willie Nelson

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.

Quotes by Willie Aames

You get a chance to get the ball every time, you're gonna do better quicker, and you're gonna gain experience faster.

Quotes by Willie Cauley-Stein

I've gotten better every year. I'm only going to continue to get better and better, and I'm just scratching the surface. I'm 25 years old, and I've been hooping at a high level for a long time.

Quotes by Willie Cauley-Stein

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Quotes by William Wordsworth

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Quotes by William Wycherley

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

Quotes by William Wycherley

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

Quotes by William Thomas

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Quotes by William Warburton

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the...

Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare

My career has been going better than expected, and I'm grateful.

Quotes by William Singe

Frequently Asked Questions

What different ideas about "better" appear on this page?
The quotes touch on writing something "for better or for worse," a technical point about security traffic getting "better and better," and the simple observation that "two people can work on a problem better than one."
Is there a quote about collaboration?
Yes: "Two people can work on a problem better than one," a concise statement in favor of teamwork. For more on personal development, see Growth.
Does this page touch on writing or creative projects?
Yes, one references putting a copy of "A Christmas Carol" on a desk before beginning to write something described as being, "for better or for worse," a personal creative work.
Is there a more technical or security-focused quote here?
Yes: "The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels," a specific observation about technology and security. For more on aiming higher, see Aspiration.
Does this page connect "better" to bigger personal change?
Indirectly - one quote about outlines and treatments notes the difficulty of turning ideas on paper into "something better," touching on the challenge of improving on your own plans. For more on transformation and looking ahead positively, see Change or Hope.

Continue with our Change quotes on transformation or Hope quotes for a more optimistic outlook.