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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.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Quotes by John Adams

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.

Quotes by Johann Lamont

It's really easy to catastrophise everything. I'd like to think as I've gotten older, I do a bit better with that.

Quotes by Johanna Konta

For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.

Quotes by Joey Ramone

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Quotes by Joey Santiago

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

Quotes by Johan Cruyff

One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.

Quotes by Johan Cruyff

Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.

Quotes by Johan Eliasch

I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.

Quotes by Johan Santana

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

Quotes by Johann Arndt

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Quotes by Johann Georg Zimmermann

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

Quotes by Joely Richardson

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Quotes by Joey Adams

As I grow older, I just want to be a better musician, to play more.

Quotes by Joey Alexander

There's no better feeling than beating someone who's up on a high horse.

Quotes by Joey Chestnut

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.

Quotes by Joey Jordison

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

Quotes by Joel McCrea

I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of...

Quotes by Joel McCrea

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.