Being Better Quotes

You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.

Me being the best in the world, it doesn't mean that much to me if I'm not a good person at the end of the day, if I'm not setting a good example for other people to be better to each other.

It's a full time job - trying to be at peace in my life, trying to be a better person and be best in every way I can be, be a good brother, be a good actor and a good human being.

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

I feel like there's a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we've evened out. And I don't need to even that out because if somebody's being negative, I need to be the better person.

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

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

All you truly need to worry about is waking up each day and to try to be the best version of yourself.

To be better than 31 other teams, you better be a really good team. It's just not about one person.