Browsing Topic Best Something Better Quotes

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Being rejected from something good just means you were being pointed toward something better.

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

If you don’t realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don’t give proper respects for others’ talents.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

I took a deep breath. ‘For you I’ve got something better than love.’ What’s that?’ I…trust you.’ Why?’ You’ll never hurt me.’ Thank you.’ But…’ But, what?’ I said, ‘That means I’ll hurt you.’ Why?’ ‘Cause, like I said, you’ll never hurt me back.

When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

If you’re like most people, you’ve always wanted something better for your life – it’s really how we are designed – we’re supposed to want improvement, and we’re designed to climb upward. But most people stop at that – the WANT. They rarely take any action that actually begins moving their dreams into true reality!

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say ’cause if you’re not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don’t feel I’ve done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.

Miracles do occur, and it’s never too late to turn your life around and reach for something better.

If we don’t act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

That’s when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another’s success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that’s why we do what we do. That’s the whole point of public service.

If we’re going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.

Being rejected from something good just means that Allah is pointing you to something better

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. . . . Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better… They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.

Hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

The truth is, rarely can a response make something better – what makes something better is connection.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.

Whatever is meant to be will be and you just have to trust that things happen for a reason. It’s made handling disappointments that much easier because I just remember my mom’s words and know that something better is meant to come my way.

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.

I’m not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food­-it’s leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It’s economic assets, it’s status, it’s all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill…but they are no better as a person.

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

I hoped for something else. It’s a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream – one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you’re willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you’ll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.

You can always have it better. If you try… [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!