Better Than You Quotes - Page 5

• If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun

  Jason Behr

  Inspirational, Basketball, Fun

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• You don’t read, you don’t understand. You don’t know what it’s like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Adventure, People, My Best Friend

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• Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

  Leif Garrett

  Believe, Thinking, Publicity

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• You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

  Bob Dylan

  Respect

  Song: To Ramona

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• When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to wait a little bit for your time. I'm going to wait and I'm going to try a sixth time. And if the sixth doesn't happen, a seventh. It's going to be like this. That's the spirit of sport.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Player, Waiting

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• I became a vegan because I'm better than you

  Thom Yorke

  Vegan

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• Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Mean, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 27, 2017

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• Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Teamwork, Heart

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• The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently are.

  Tony Robbins

  Mean, Frustration, Brain

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

  LouAnne Johnson

  Writing, Rejection, Risk

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• Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

  Barbara Sher

  Silly, Self Worth, Sea

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• There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, Class, America

  AFF Presidential Forum in Washington DC, March 14, 2007.

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• Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Islands, Doe, Next

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• Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Advice, Listening, Important

  Jennifer Lopez (2014). “True Love”, p.28, Penguin

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• The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Needs, Philosopher

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

  Lori Greiner

  Photography, Design, Hats

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• Leave this world a little better than you found it.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Creativity, Design, Found

  Baden-Powell's Last Message, 1941.

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• I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Thinking, Growing

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

  Asa Larsson

  Thinking, People

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• Anything you can do I can do better,
  I can do anything better than you.

  Irving Berlin

  Competition, Can Do, I Can

  "Anything You Can Do" (song) (1946)

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• Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

  Richard Bach

  Education, What Matters, People

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• Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out (in flight) is better than you might expect; the profuseion of canopy struts is not particularly a problem. In addition to the above the small cockpit makes you feel more a part of the aeroplane.

  Mark Ashley Hanna

  Views, Might, Flight

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• Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

  James Cromwell

  Assumption, Authority, Knows

  "James Cromwell Talks STILL MINE, Playing a Lead Role, Questioning Authority, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2013.

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• I want to keep acting and I want to keep working with high quality artists. I might be a bit spoiled because they're so good at what they do. I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

  Mickey Sumner

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

  T. H. White

  Men, Soon Enough, Slaughter

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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