These better life quotes will inspire you. A better life, if you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging better life quotes, better life sayings, and better life proverbs.
Best Better Life Quotes
- “My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.” ~ Brad Pitt
- “We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.” ~ Mitt Romney
- “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Will Durant
- “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” ~ James Allen
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” ~ Wendy Mass
- “If you don’t change direction, you end up where you are headed.” ~ John Gibbons
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” ~ Gerard Way
- “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
- “You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.” ~ Leon Brown
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“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “There’s nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.” ~ Allen West
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.” ~ Richard Bach
- “Design the life you want to live.” ~ Rachel Roy
- “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Mae West
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“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” ~ Laozi
- “If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire…if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores…if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote…if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time…if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream…and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love…then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.” ~ Michelle Obama
- “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do” ~ Lewis Carroll
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“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” ~ Richard Bach
- “The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.” ~ Mitt Romney
- “Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it – economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children – they grab on to that and don’t want to give it up.” ~ Thomas Friedman
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“I suppose there’s a lot of people that’ve got a better life than me. But I don’t know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
- “I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground, or the senate; I am … no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. … None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.” ~ Tertullian
- “To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.” ~ George H. W. Bush
- “Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of their hope for a better life and a decent future. Killed children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who play with remnants of war, instead of toys. Children who don’t know how to smile. Please stop! I ask you with all my heart. It’s time to stop. Stop it please!” ~ Pope Francis
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“Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.” ~ Ali Suliman
- “We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in. The Shia– Sunni split, the dictatorships that have suppressed people’s aspirations, the increasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life. We saw that in Egypt. We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim Brotherhood president installed and then we saw him ousted and the army back.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “We call that the American dream, but in fact, it’s a universal dream of a better life that people have all over the world. It is a reminder that every country in the world has rich people. What makes America special is that we have millions and millions of people that are not rich, that through hard work and perseverance are able to be successful.” ~ Marco Rubio
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“Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products. Instead, enrich lives.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.” ~ William J. Clinton , Better life quotes change
- “There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.” ~ Warren Farrell
- “The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men’s desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned – allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and loveless, we pay for a home in which we do not live.” ~ Warren Farrell
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“As an artist, I just can’t think of a better life than the one I’ve been blessed with. It’s just a great ride.” ~ Robert Redford
- “The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented – the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.” ~ Paul Haggis
- “We’re coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.” ~ George W. Bush
- “I am about life. I surround myself with beautiful things. I work hard to have a better life. This job helps me achieve that through the people I meet. I’m lucky – not to have been a cover girl – but to have been able to meet all these people, to live these adventures and travel so comfortably. But despite that, it’s still difficult. Nothing comes easily. Everything I’ve earned is down to me, and no one else.” ~ Lea Seydoux
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“Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery ‘halftime,’ and the outcome led to my second half.” ~ Bob Buford
- “To me it hit home when the US took away the pledge of allegiance from the kids in school. People that migrate to come to this country can’t learn to love a flag that means universal freedom no matter where you come from, you can come here to try and have a better life.” ~ Cristian Machado
- “If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.” ~ Bill Gates
- “In our Revolution, we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free to decide our destiny. And in order to realize the interests of the Somali people, their achievement of a better life, the full development of their potentialities, and the fulfillment of their aspirations, we solemnly declare Somalia to be a Socialist State.” ~ Siad Barre
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“If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.” ~ Laurence J. Peter
- “We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its only hope, its only chance; the last seed of a new and better life: the voice of God that whispers to it: “You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be. You are still God’s child, still an immortal soul. You may rise yet. and fight a good fight yet, and be a man once more, after the likeness of God who made you, and Christ who died for you!” ~ Charles Kingsley
- “There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.” ~ Robert McNamara
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“You know you can’t hope yourself a better life – you must take yourself there.” ~ Helen Gurley Brown
- “There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time” ~ Jules Verne
- “The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.” ~ Bob Proctor
- “The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.” ~ Patrick Dixon
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“You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
- “Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.” ~ Gene Luen Yang
- “I don’t want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.” ~ Dorothy Stang
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“O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!” ~ Franz Schubert
- “There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?” ~ Paul Bourget
- “Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
