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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.

We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

Quotes by Thomas R. Insel

If you fail, fail fast enough so you can regroup and do it better.

Quotes by Thomas Newman

Giving our guests faster and better access to the fun is at the heart of our investment in technology.

Quotes by Thomas O. Staggs

After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to.

Quotes by Thomas Middleditch

When you play for Bayern Munich and you are important for the team, there's no better club out there.

Quotes by Thomas Muller

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

Quotes by Thomas Malory

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

Quotes by Thomas Langmann

Bigness is better.

Quotes by Thomas Leonard

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Quotes by Thomas John Barnardo

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

Quotes by Thomas Hughes

Kids are always infatuated with the action in martial arts films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That...

Quotes by Thomas Ian Griffith

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even...

Quotes by Thomas Ian Nicholas

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Quotes by Thomas Hardy

I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general,...

Quotes by Thomas H. Cook

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Quotes by Thomas Friedman

Better a tooth out than always aching.

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

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.