You're Better Quotes

“You're better looking than me. You're more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than me. Your family is nicer than mine. Your religion is better than mine. You've seen more beaches than me. You've been to more cities than me. Your automobile is nicer than mine. Your significant other is better looking than mine. Your candidate won. Your home team won. You're number one. But life is a tie. We all die.”

— Jason Daniel Chaplin

“My perspective broke a long time ago." Damon
"Don't make any repairs. You're better off without it." Jall”

— Eleni Papanou

“Just because you have blue hair and fucked-up clothes doesn't mean you're better than everyone
else. Because you know what? You're just conforming to someone else's code. Even though you don't
wear khakis or sweaters or whatever, but to me all you guys look the same. You think you're so
individualistic, but you're not. You guys-you and Kim and all the rest-you're like anti-snob snobs.
But you're just as mean as the preppy kids. You're all just as fucking lame.”

— Joe Meno

“But if you sit around thinking what to do and end up not doing anything, why bother even thinking about it? You're better off going out on the town and having a good time. No, we have to think and act. That's what we're doing here, and that's what you have to do.”

— Elvia Alvarado

“Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.”

— Passenger

“You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.”

— Shannon Hale

“You're better off believing in God they'd warn you, just in case. Because you'd hate to arrive at the gates of heaven a nonbeliever and find out the Christians had been right all along. It was a pretty ingenious line of thinking. It almost made me want to go to church. Not enough to actually go, but still.”

— Drew Magary

“The minute you think you have the right to belittle others because you think you're better than them is the same minute you've proven you're worse.”

— Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

“Here's who it's not okay to share a bed with: Anyone who makes you feel like you're invading their space. Anyone who tells you that they "just can't be alone right now." Anyone who doesn't make you feel like sharing a bed is the coziest and most sensual activity they could possibly be undertaking (unless, of course, it is one of the aforementioned relatives; in that case, they should act lovingly but also reserved/slightly annoyed). Now, look over at the person beside you. Do they meet these criteria? If not, remove them or remove yourself. You're better off alone.”

— Lena Dunham

“When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself, or never even thinking them in the first place.”

— Tom Perrotta

“It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you're better than the life you've settled for.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Waiting for a sign? What sign do you await, besides your own misery? What sign, besides the calendar that reminds you how many days and years you've thrown away? What other sign do you need besides the burning inner fire that demands you're better than what you've settled for? Stop lying to yourself! You have seen so many signs ... you know what you want ... no more delays ... no more excuses! Our days are too limited to wait for signs ... Life IS a sign! Go live it!”

— Steve Maraboli

“He rolled his eyes. "Don't talk to me like that, Eadlyn. I'm fourteen, not four. I read all the papers, and I pay attention at the Reports. I speak more languages than you, and I'm learning all the things you have without anyone making me do it. Don't act like you're better than me. I'm a prince." I sighed. "Yes, but I will be queen," I corrected, sipping my coffee. I really didn't need this right now.”

— Kiera Cass

“No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.”

— Thomas More

“You're better than the mountains, you know. Murmured against Vadim's lips.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.”

— Art Spiegelman

“I;m not going to compete with you. I'm better than you are at what I do. And you're better than I am at what you do.”

— Stieg Larsson

“You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.”

— Betty Grable

“Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.”

— Billy Boyd

“When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.”

— Lee Brice

“You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”

— Tom Robbins

“No matter what anyone says, dont take their F**king Bulls**t. Coz you're better then them, faster than them and god damn it, YOU'RE MUCH BETTER LOOKING!!”

— Gerard Way

“Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I guess if you're not going to win the championship, you're better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.”

— Tony Stewart

“Betsy waved her hands in the air as if to disperse an unpleasant perfume. He's such a lot of bother. You're better off-theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.”

— Kelley Armstrong

“I'm the Captain of the Guard-I'm not exactly a catch for any of them." There was sorrow in his eyes, though it was well concealed.
"Are you mad? You're better than anyone in here.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say ... please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place.”

— Gordon Brown

“Please don't mix Marvel and DC references. You're better than that, he said, shaking his head disdainfully.”

— Molly Harper

“As long as you're better at it than skating ... , Anna said and stood up too. She wanted to say more, but that wasn't possible because he was kissing her. Reasonable Anna wanted to draw back the danger of touch. But unreasonable Anna welcomed the kiss like happiness. Maybe, she thought, it's better to take these moments when you get them - there might not be too many in life.”

— Antonia Michaelis

“I've heard you say many times
That you're better 'n no one
And no one is better 'n you
If you really believe that
You know you got
Nothing to win and nothing to lose”

— Bob Dylan

“Successwise, you're better off being good at two complementary skills than being excellent at one.”

— Scott Adams

“I think I know who you are," he finally said. "It took me a minute, since you're better looking than I thought you'd be, but I think I've got it.”

— Michelle Rowen

“You're better off," d'Aiglemort said dryly. "Steel and faith are an unnatural mix.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“The point is, they have a public thing against the overweight and the underbeautiful. Those are my people there, Jared. Those are the people who pull the curtain and write the plays and make the costumes-those are the people who make the dream but who don't live it on the front of the stage. Anyone who knocks those people is not going to get my business. Or yours, because you're better than that.”

— Amy Lane

“When you live in shackles to other people's opinions and moods and judgments, it is the equivalent of becoming a human streamer. And you're better than that. You're meant to be in the driver's seat of your life, not running alongside the car, trying to catch up!”

— Mandy Hale

“I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.”

— John Corey Whaley

“CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.”

— Robin Meade

“Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.”

— Joao Magueijo

“Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.”

— Joey McIntyre

“Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!”

— Sylvester Stallone

“Bands
enough with the crayon face-paint
you're better than that.”

— Ted Leo

“I can walk around screaming, 'I have 17 Grand Slams. I have the record here or there.' When you can play for history and you do it, that's what is so really cool, is that you can then be compared to other greats or you've passed another great, even though it doesn't mean you're better than him. But it's just like that moment you've gone into the unknown where nobody else has ever been before.”

— Roger Federer

“If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.”

— Mark Cuban

“Respect your haters. They're the only ones who think you're better than them.”

— Nicki Minaj

“You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...”

— Ben Horowitz

“If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.”

— Charlie Munger

“I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of 'You must be worse before you're better,' and down it spins.”

— Katherine Mansfield