Better Quotes

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

It is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else.

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.