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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.

That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then we're going to work backward. I think that's why science fiction - despite the dystopian parts - comes...

Quotes by Margot Lee Shetterly

You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.

Quotes by Margaret Stohl

How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries...

Quotes by Margaret MacMillan

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Quotes by Margaret Oliphant

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined...

Quotes by Margaret Fuller

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

Quotes by Margaret Fuller

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.

Quotes by Margaret Haddix

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Quotes by Margaret Atwood

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that...

Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

If you pick up a copy of 'A Better World,' you'll lose those last five pounds while saving a baby seal under a rainbow. I kid. It'll be ten pounds.

Quotes by Marcus Sakey

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Quotes by Marcy Kaptur

If we want to do better and get stronger, we have to keep our best players.

Quotes by Marco Silva

It is better to be compared with a very good coach than the other way.

Quotes by Marco Silva

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Marcus Aurelius

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

Quotes by Marcus Garvey

I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.

Quotes by Marcus Luttrell

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

Quotes by Marcus Mariota

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Quotes by Marcus Mariota

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.