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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.

To me, I have always been a Rick Adelman fan. I felt like if I had been in his systems, I probably would have been a better player than I was because if you look at his system, it was...

Quotes by Robert Horry

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

Quotes by Robert Greenwald

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

Quotes by Robert Griffin III

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done...

Quotes by Robert Guillaume

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Quotes by Robert H. Schuller

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Quotes by Robert Half

I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it's better to do something that's inspired by them - a new work that's inspired by them - versus another person saying they redid your song.

Quotes by Robert Glasper

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

Quotes by Robert Glasper

The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery...

Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I...

Quotes by Robert Fortune

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost

Horror does better when it's bubbling under. It's a niche. It doesn't like the limelight.

Quotes by Robert Englund

I'm better than Olivier.

Quotes by Robert Duvall

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Quotes by Robert E. Lee

Because I've always been good at knowing what I thought and not reviewing prematurely and have gotten better at those things over the years, my flips are rarely that significant.

Quotes by Robert Christgau

In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.

Quotes by Robert Christgau

People come to L.A. because they're chasing that dream of a better life. That's why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people...

Quotes by Robert Crais

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.