Helping others may seem like an obvious route to becoming a better person in that we often think of “good people” as those who are willing to sacrifice for others. Inspirational better person quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Better Person Quotes
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters Epictetus
I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect. Chris Brown
Your strength doesn’t come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level Germany Kent
My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person so I can get a better girlfriend. Anthony Jeselnik
Believing you’re a good person and actually being one are two completely different things.
I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it’s better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward. Cindy McCain
It’s never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot
I’m never satisfied. I’m always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. Russell Westbrook
It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes. Maureen Forrester
He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us. Graham Cooke
The best revenge is not to be like that. Marcus Aurelius
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person. J.R. Rim
Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can’t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing Jim Rohn
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away William Glasser
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of Paulo Coelho
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. Og Mandino
If you’re going to become a better person, do it in high school Camila Mendes
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. The past is the past. I just want to focus on the future, and getting better, not making the same mistakes and just becoming a better person, a better artist. Just a better everything. Jay Park
Your trials are there to help you become a better person and trusting this is truth will take some of the sting out of them Kimberly Giles
Being a good person does not mean you have to put up with other people’s crap.
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one’s existence. B. R. Ambedkar
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are John Pierpont Morgan
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
Every job is an opportunity to be a better person Benjamin Walker
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person. Gloria Steinem
Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here. Jimmy Doolittle
The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving Hussein Abdallah
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire
Being a good person doesn’t depend on your religion, your race or your skin color or your culture. It depends on how good is your heart and how good you treat others.
You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that’s important. Blake Griffin
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come Joseph Campbell
Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better. Les Paul
I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love Diane Kruger
The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you’ve found a good man. Colleen Hoover
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one Marcus Aurelius
Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your behavior does.
Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what’s important in life. Germany Kent
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Jim Rohn
Never regret being a good person, to the wrong people. Your behavior says everything about you, and their behavior says enough about them. Marc & Angel
I am and always will be a sinner. But that’s the beautiful thing about Jesus. I’ll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I’m not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I’m holier than thou, ’cause I’m not! Billy Ray Cyrus
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford
You can’t just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.
You should not just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend. Sue Wicks
This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. Ellen Page
You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits Bhagavad Gita
I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren’t intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person. Vanessa Hudgens
Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it Jim Rohn
You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny. Wallace D. Wattles
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good Bhumibol Adulyadej
I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you’re leaving me, what am I supposed to do? Lisa Gilbert
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next Gilda Radner
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience a group history that may be tapped into at will in years to come. John Thorn
It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire. Joyce Meyer
But then my mother, who’s a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us he would make more money; therefore, we’d be able to get better educations. Patricia Richardson
Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue. Zeno
I think it would be much better for the country and for Clinton personally to resign I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he’d be gone. Mark Sanford
Live by your impulses, and you’ll be just like them. You’re better than that, aren’t you, Red? Neal Shusterman
If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.
