Better Quotes

The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.

I have now spent fifty-five years in resolving: having, from the earliest time almost that I can remember, been forming plans of a better life. I have done nothing. The need of doing, therefore, is pressing, since the time of doing is short. O God, grant me to resolve aright, and to keep my resolutions, […]

Though I’ve belted you and flayed you, By the livin’ Gawd that made you’ You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

You did then what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better.

No one is any better than you, but you are no better than anyone else until you do something to prove it.

Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart–then you may become somebody.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Otherwise, adv. No better.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Miss Adams: “Do you think, Sir, you could make your Ramblers better?” Johnson: “Certainly I could.” Boswell: “I’ll lay a bet, Sir, you cannot.” Johnson: “But I will, Sir, if I choose. I shall make the best of them you shall pick out, better.” Boswell: “But you may add to them. I will not allow […]