Better Place Quotes

It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.
- Veronica Roth

Be compassionate... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
- Mitch Albom

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
- Jodi Picoult

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
- Alan Alda

But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope
- Elizabeth Gilbert

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
- Christiane Amanpour

I felt that justice had been served and that the world was, in some way, a better place for all of us.
- James F Amos

People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.
- Virginia C Andrews

You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.
- Max Lucado

But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better placethe way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heartlike Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl's outward appearance, and into her soullike Andrew.
- Meg Cabot

That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
- Paul Auster

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
- Banksy

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
- Banksy

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.
- Max Baucus

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.
- Nina Bawden

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.
- Sara Blakely

We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.
- Sara Blakely

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
- Sepp Blatter

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
- Paul Bremer

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
- John F Kennedy

You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.
- Nicholas Sparks

The world is a better place when you smile
- Nicholas Sparks

It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
- Charles Bukowski

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
- Julie Burchill

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
- James Lee Burke

God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
- Leo Buscaglia

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
- Orson Scott Card

The Gamma paused. "You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?"
"You can think of a better place to stash him?"
"What about the wine?
- Gail Carriger

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
- Rosalynn Carter

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.
- Harry Chapin

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans
- Charles Chaplin

His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one.
If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy... but he strongly hints at it.
- Stephen King

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
- Marian Wright Edelman

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
- Tom Clancy

You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?
- Daniel Clowes

All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
- Terry Pratchett

The world would be a better place if everyone traveled.

- Donna Jo Napoli

I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone.
- Tre Cool

In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.
- Nicolaus Copernicus

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
- Patricia Cornwell

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.
- Patricia Cornwell

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
- Doug Coupland

Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.
- Jennifer Crusie

Tzedakah is different than charity. Charity comes from the word charitus, which means heart. Tzedakah comes from the word tzedek, which means justice, so when you are giving tzedakah, you are not just making the world a better place by contributing to hospitals, synagogues, churches, or your favorite cause. You are in a position of bringing justice to the world, becoming as God-like as possible.
- Celso Cukierkorn

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
- Rick Danko

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.
- Richard Dawkins

We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands.
- Katie J Davis

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!
- Sarah Dessen

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better.
- Annie Dillard

I don't really know what "intellectual" means, but if it means you've got a desire to learn, you've got a desire to look for things that haven't been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that "intellectual" is quite an exclusive word. I think it's just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.
- Pete Doherty

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.
- Mary Douglas

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
- Isadora Duncan

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe."
Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.
- Henry James

Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.
- Simone Elkeles

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.
- Nelson Mandela

I'm not a bad person. I haven't killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don't kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?
- Gena Showalter

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
- Lady Gaga

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.
- George R R Martin

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
- Uri Geller

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?
- Laura San Giacomo

In a woman's womb another chance to make
the world a better place.
- Ellen Hopkins

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother
- Jane Goodall

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.
- Hugh Hefner

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
- Carl Hiaasen

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others...
- Gordon B Hinckley

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
- John Hoeven

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
- Karen Hughes

I can't think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia.
- Robert Hurt

Heal the World,
make it a better place,
for you and for me
and the entire human race,
there are people dying,
if you care enough for the living,
make a better place for you and for me...
- Michael Jackson

I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change
- Michael Jackson

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.
- Michael Jackson

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
- Steve Jobs

This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
- Gary Johnson

I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.
- Kevin Johnson

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.
- Edward P Jones

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.
- Shirley Jones

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.
- Jerry Seinfeld

Blankets could be used to represent the warmth and comfort of Libertarian ideals. And the world would be a better place, if most politicians didn't have bricks for brains.
- Jarod Kintz

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
- Jeff Koons

The world isn't made a better place by the unburdening of a heart.
- Amy Lane

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.
- Mike Lee

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.
- Deborah Levy

There's no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who'll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!
- Sinclair Lewis

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?
- Jeff Lindsay

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.
- Meat Loaf

My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
- Jon Lovitz

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
- Robert Macneil

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
- Wilma Mankiller

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
- Wynton Marsalis

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.
- Don Mattingly

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.
- Evelyn Waugh

I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.
- Debi Mazar

I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.
- Martina Mcbride

He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.
- Colum Mccann

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.
- Thomas Menino

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
- Ed Miliband

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
- Moliere

If you need us, for anything, never forget we are here for you. All of us. You have done amazing things to make this world a better place."
That was really sweet. And sincere. And if I didn't look away from his kind expression, I was just going to cry like a little girl.
"Wait until you see my encore," I said.
- Devon Monk

With the right treatment, love, and care the world is a better place.
- Ana Monnar

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.
- Michael Moore

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.
- Alonzo Mourning

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.
- Tia Mowry

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.
- Dee Dee Myers

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.
- Bill Oreilly

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
- Rosa Parks

I have my welcome mat turned around backwards so when people leave they think they're going to a better place.
- Stanley Victor Paskavich

Speak up for peace, speak up for justice, speak up for freedom, Speak up your mind for truth and help make our world a better place.
- Timothy Pina

Always try and leave the world a much better place than you found it!
- Timothy Pina

Even though we live in a world that people are much more conscience about being politically correct. The truth is if all children were taught from young (at home, church and school) that in our short existence on this planet, that we are all here to help humanity and to not hurt it and that hands are not for hurting but for trying to help all...our world would be a much better place to live in.
- Timothy Pina

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
- Colin Powell

The world's a better place since I chose music.
- Henry Rollins

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
- Mitt Romney

I remembered the things we used to talk about, the things we'd planned. But now I wanted other things, new things, like the career that people at work kept telling me I was sure to have. I'd probably want the house and the kids and the husband one day, but not yet. There were so many things I wanted to do between now and then. I also knew that Park Slope wasn't the only place in planet to plant a flower garden. There were even better places out there somewhere.
- Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.
- Marco Rubio

I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known.
- Mary Doria Russell

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.
- Jim Sensenbrenner

What better place to kill time than a library?
- Diane Setterfield

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
- Sidney Sheldon

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
- Sidney Sheldon

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
- Sidney Sheldon

Because...because how can I expect the world to be a better place if I ain't gonna try real hard to make it better?

- John Shors

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.
- Chen Shuibian

I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.
- Ashlee Simpson

That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.
- Michael K Simpson

Then I reached down into myself and managed to say, 'you should celebrate, your birthday should be celebrated, because the world's a better place with you in it.' May you continue to pile on the years, but with more pleasure from now on.
- Helen Simpson

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)
- Taylor Swift

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
- Bob Taft

The world would be a far better place if more people listened to the wisdom of Hawkeye Pierce.
- Michel Templet

Just because people treat you like shit, just because you may feel like shit sometimes, doesn't mean you are shit. You can make something of your life. You can give of yourself in this world to make it a better place. - Jake quoting his mentor, Arnie Coel
- Lisa Unger

All right. I'll bite. Here's what I think, with the caveat that I may be wrong. I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good -- we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing to much damage.
- Carrie Vaughn

But my hands are in the right place."
"Heart," I corrected. "Your heart's in the right place."
"Yeah, but my hands are in an even better place."
And so they were.
- Rachel Vincent

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
- Barbara Walters