Better Than You Quotes - Page 10

• ...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Realizing

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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• This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Eye, Warrior

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader”, p.36, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.

  Derek Landy

  Satisfaction, Credit, World

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• Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Bullying, People, Stronger

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• You are aware that the sale of liquore is currently against the law." Edgar went on, "but I suppose that is why you enjoy it." "Everyone should have a hobby or two," Magnus said. "Mine just happen to include illegal trade, drinking and carousing. I've heard of worse." "We tend not to have time for hobbies." Shadowhunters. Always better than you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Drinking, Should Have, Law

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Miss Temminnick, you are in receipt of the highest marks we have ever given in a six-month review. Your mind seems designed for espionage. Nevertheless, you veer away from perfect in matters of etiquette. Do not let these marks go to your head; there are many girls at this school who are better than you. Our biggest concern is what you get up to when we are not watching. Because, if nothing else, this test has told us you are probably spying on us, as well as everyone around you.

  Gail Carriger

  Girl, School, Perfect

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• Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

  Tony Hsieh

  Inspirational, Business, Cocky

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• You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Textbooks

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• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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• Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil.

  Brian Jacques

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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  You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

  Joe Biden

  Kids, Looks, Realizing

  “Joe Biden: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never...yes, never...sell yourself short.

  David J. Schwartz

  Motivational, Successful, Thinking

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• In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

  David Brooks

  Character, Self, Views

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Kids, People

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• Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, Expectations, Sides

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.336, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think it's too late for prayin, hold up, a voice spoke to me and it slowly started sayin' 'Bring your lifestyle to me I'll make it better. I'll make your life better than you can imagine or even dreamed of.' I see demons. So relax your soul let me take control. You go down with the devil. Now roam through the depths of hell, where the rest your homeboys dwell.

  Snoop Dogg

  Thinking, Voice, Soul

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• You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy.

  Michael Bassey

  Wise, Powerful, People

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• Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.

  Paul Hawken

  Simple, People, Trying

  "The Ecology of Commerce". Book by Paul Hawken, 1993.

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• There's so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment rights. There are so many things to consider and an agent is going to know how to wade through all that much better than you are.

  Ann M. Martin

  Book, Rights, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.

  John Cena

  Two, People, Choices

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• I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.

  Paul Walker

  Basketball, Sports, Play

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• At the end of the day, all you really have is your own sense of your artistic ability and I've always stuck with that my whole life. I guess there is always a bit of relief that I have and real joy of being able to engage other people who are talented, equally or better than you, and you can work with them.

  Sharlto Copley

  Real, Artistic Ability, People

  Source: collider.com

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  If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.

  Paul Walker

  Play, People, Get Better

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

  Bo Burnham

  Ideas, Faces, Littles

  Source: www.craveonline.com

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• Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.

  Farrah Gray

  Smart, Not Good Enough, Legs

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