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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.

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

Quotes by S. Jay Olshansky

Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.

Quotes by S. Jay Olshansky

I am not worried about criticism. In fact, it helps one perform better.

Quotes by S. Sreesanth

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

Quotes by S. Sreesanth

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.

Quotes by Ryne Sandberg

There's nothing better than getting announced you're doing a job, people slating you, then you do a job and having people go ‘he's actually all right.'

Quotes by Rylan Clark-Neal

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Quotes by Ryan Lochte

I don't think I know better than what the cosmos has in store for me.

Quotes by Ryan McCartan

I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in.

Quotes by Ryan Murphy

It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate.

Quotes by Ryan Murphy

I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to...

Quotes by Ryan Phillippe

I think one thing I've always focused on is getting better instead of getting somewhere.

Quotes by Ryan Hurd

Life is life and there are always going to be struggles. But when you're doing the next right thing it seems to make everything a little easier, a little bit better and a lot happier.

Quotes by Ryan Leaf

I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.

Quotes by Ryan Lewis

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

Quotes by Ryan Cabrera

But I think sometimes, coaching less is better. That’s the art of coaching, figuring out with each kid what is the right way to approach it?

Quotes by Ryan Day

As a father, small businessman, Navy intelligence veteran, and co-founder of a public charter school, I'm ready to bring common-sense solutions to how we move America in a better direction.

Quotes by Ryan Frazier

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

Quotes by Rutina Wesley

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

Quotes by Ruud Gullit

The important thing, is to believe in a better future.

Quotes by Ryan Babel

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.