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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 your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Quotes by Henry Spencer

Outwardly, I may look quiet, but deep inside, I'm full of this sense of challenge. I'm always striving to work harder, to improve by learning, to do better and keep dreaming.

Quotes by Henry Sy

I came to the Philippines to follow my father who came here earlier, looking for a better life. I helped my father in our sari-sari store. I also asked him if I could go back to school so I could...

Quotes by Henry Sy

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

Quotes by Henry Ossawa Tanner

A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better...

Quotes by Henry Paulson

An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.

Quotes by Henry Paulson

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

Quotes by Henry Petroski

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.'

Quotes by Henry Ian Cusick

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Quotes by Henry Kissinger

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Quotes by Henry Kissinger

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau

There's an honesty to Clark, Kal-El - Kal-El's the better way of saying it because he is both Superman and Clark - there's an honesty to him which crosses over on both - I don't like to use the word...

Quotes by Henry Cavill

If you think you're higher than UFC, if you think you're better than all the other fighters, then maybe you should get pulled.

Quotes by Henry Cejudo

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Quotes by Henry Clay

Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.

Quotes by Henry Cloud

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.

Quotes by Henry Allingham

The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.

Quotes by Henry B. Eyring

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Quotes by Henri Matisse

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Quotes by Henri Poincare

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.