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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.

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

Quotes by Kathy Szeliga

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

Quotes by Kathryn Newton

I care for you. I want to make life safer and better for you.

Quotes by Kathleen Blanco

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

Quotes by Katherine Moennig

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

Quotes by Kathleen Battle

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and...

Quotes by Katherine Jenkins

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my...

Quotes by Katherine Jenkins

I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.

Quotes by Katherine Johnson

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Quotes by Katharine Butler Hathaway

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

Quotes by Katharine Graham

'Guardian Australia' will connect our Australian audience to our global community and give readers around the world a better understanding of this very significant nation.

Quotes by Katharine Viner

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

Quotes by Kate Voegele

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real...

Quotes by Kate Winslet

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

Quotes by Kate Millett

We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and...

Quotes by Kate Pierson

We were in the position after our sextuplets were born that we could not pay our bills. We did the show to provide a better life for them.

Quotes by Kate Gosselin

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

Quotes by Kate Jackson

As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us...

Quotes by Kate Bernheimer

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

Quotes by Kate Bosworth

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.