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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.

If I have a better idea, I say, 'Can we try one like this?' I try not to step on writers' toes, but ninety-nine percent of the time, it ends up in the movie, and sometimes it's the line that...

Quotes by William Sadler

Maybe I don't take myself quite as seriously as I used to, but the work has gotten better and more interesting, and I'm just having more fun. It's getting more and more fun with each role.

Quotes by William Sadler

I kinda like where I am. If I'm recognized all the time, I have to leave better tips in restaurants.

Quotes by William Sanderson

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

Quotes by William Sanderson

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Quotes by William Quigley

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

Quotes by William Robertson Smith

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

Quotes by William Petty

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Quotes by William Pollard

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

Quotes by William O. Douglas

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

Quotes by William P. Leahy

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Quotes by William Penn

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Quotes by William Penn

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

Quotes by William Lyon Phelps

In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.

Quotes by William M. Daley

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

Quotes by William Kent

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

Quotes by William J. Mayo

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.

Quotes by William Jackson

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Quotes by William John Wills

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

Quotes by William Hague

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Quotes by William Hazlitt

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.