Top 1200 Better Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

My family is my biggest inspiration. My son, my husband, and my family inspire me to be better, do better, and live better.

I actually work better within restrictions. When you leave everything wide open, things tend to get a little convoluted. So when you give me those restrictions and I start to use my brain creatively to work around those, that's when things get interesting.

It's good to train with someone better than you, because you evolve; you see more things.

I do not want to waste my time by counting films of other producers as I have better things to perform.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. Always listen to a man when he describes the faults of others. Often times, most times, he's describing his own, revealing himself.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

The only way to get better is to wrestle better people and work with better guys; that's the only way to get better in our business.

I love what my dad taught me and modeled for me - not just with coaching but as a husband, as a father, as a teacher, as someone in our community that cared and worked to make things better. I watched my dad and learned a lot about a lot of things, not just basketball.

It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and we're doing better and better at that lobe. But at the producer and seller mode, we have to work harder and harder. And the better we do as consumers and investors - the easier it is for us to choose something better, to exit every commercial relationship - the harder we have to work as sellers and producers. One follows from the other.

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.

I don't believe in being loud. I find that stupid. Understated things work much better.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.

My goal is to get better every year and statistically that has happened in a lot of different things.

The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.

I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.

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.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

Unless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things.

"Fate permitting" is a standard Stoic phrase meant to remind ourselves that planning things is up to us, but the ultimate outcomes are not under our control. It helps us to develop an attitude of equanimity toward the universe. We should very much try to change things for the better, that's the whole point of the Stoic discipline of action.

One of the things that has happened for me is that whatever came next was better than what I had before.

I don't like to think of myself as an insincere person but if I say I love you and I don't mean it then what else am I? Will I cherish you, adore you, make way for you, make myself better for you, look at you and always see you, tell you the truth? And if love is not those things then what things?

When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

My first world title gave me the confidence to go and do bigger and better things.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody is better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is better off.

You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.

It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways of doing better. Not only practice; obviously you have to practice. But to invent things how to do better. If somebody doesn't know what invention means, he should stop violin playing! You can't explain everything... Not practicing only: Think how to achieve quality.

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments.

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

It doesn't matter what has happened, better things are coming. God's plan produces hope in me.

I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

Things won't get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

I don't care about the sort of things that will bring in chump change over the next two or three years. I think I'm better than others at sniffing out things that will bear fruit in 10 or 20 years while they're still at the seed stage, and I'm more willing to take the risks that entails.