Better Things Quotes

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

Regret, Leave, Behind

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Through, Energy

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
John D. Rockefeller

Life, Great, School

Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Virgil

Present, Watch, Endure

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer

Suffering, Taste, Actual

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Richard M. Nixon

Time, Home, Play

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

Dreams, Fun, Thinking

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Good, Art, Mind

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.
Ani DiFranco

Care, Alive, Eat

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
John Podhoretz

End, Light, Republican

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.
Benjamin Carson

Time, Important, Feeling

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.
Carrie Underwood

Life, Husband, Friends

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
Wentworth Miller

Educate, Grind, Confronted

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft

Progress, Taken, Toward

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
Dave Matthews

Country, Small, Gave

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.
Michael Symon

Food, Quality, Natural

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
George Gissing

Stupidity, Mankind, Nations

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
Buddy Rich

Hands, Cut, Drum

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.
Jude Law

Away, Actor, Takes

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
Channing Pollock

May, Small, Become

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.
Linford Christie

Working, Involved, Athletes

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
Isaac D'Israeli

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.
Jeffrey Donovan

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
Barry Hannah

Life, Writing, Done

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.
Robin Leach

Start, Move, Grow

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