“My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldJobsFatherOpportunitySawsGrewGrew UpEnglandTownsYeahUniversityNew WorldCoalBetter LifeMiningTextilesCoal MiningBradford Author:Aasif Mandvi
“Obviously, my daughter keeps me motivated, but I've got a really great support system. Having my husband and my mother and my family really support me, so that I can not only provide for my daughter, but I can set up a future that creates a better life for her.” I CanMotherSupportHusbandDaughterMy FamilyMy DaughterMy HusbandMotivatedCan NotReally GreatBetter LifeSupport MeSupport Systems Author:Jamie Lynn Spears
“Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever, where they lived. It was America that promised a much better life.” PeopleReasonWantedAmericaLibertyPovertySlaveryTyrannyPrimariesBondageBetter LifeFreedom And Liberty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Donald] Trump is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what they want: a fair chance to have a better life economically.” WantChanceTalkingTrumpRepublicanFairsAfrican AmericanAppealsCandidatesBetter Life Author:Jeff Sessions
“The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service.” PeopleThinkingGivingLooksChildrenHardFightingBattleResilienceGet UpWowBetter LifeSomething BetterResourcefulness Author:Kathy Calvin
“It is going to have healthy food and exercise mixed together. With smaller portions, and more exercise, you live a better life.” TogetherExerciseHealthyPortionsBetter LifeHealthy Food Author:Wolfgang Puck
“My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life.” ChildrenDreamWould BeChildhoodReflectionMy ChildrenBetter Life Author:Andrea Navedo
“Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place on this planet to "create a better life for all" is functioning in a way that generates that outcome.” WayPlanetsInstitutionsSpeciesOutcomesDevicesObserversBetter LifeCasual Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?” RealStoriesUseRunningGrowsInspireMessagesWhy NotBetter LifeLife StoryInspire Others Author:Brendon Burchard
“I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more influence on policy, in the absence of a social decision to play that game in the way it's proposed to be organised for some set of benefits.” WayPlayGamesSocialDecisionInfluencePolicyBenefitsDeserveAbsenceAccessFasterMathematicianRunnersBetter LifeOrganised Author:Catherine Wilson
“I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.” IfsYearsBelieveDreamKidsGenerationsDadWorkersMy DadKeep GoingGood LifeFactoriesAmerican DreamBetter LifeMillsLacePennsylvaniaGranddaughterFactory Workers Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.” WorldYearsStatesAmericaNamesChancePiecesFourRightsWeaponsHundredEightNuclearRussiaAround The WorldDecentNuclear WeaponsWomens RightsSecretarySenatorsLegislationBetter LifeTreatiesAdvocatingSponsors Author:Hillary Clinton
“Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.” BigsUsedEconomyResourcesSocialismDictatorshipBetter LifeBig Business Author:Kshama Sawant
“When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for a better life. It was this radical labor movement that forced the establishment to make concessions.” FightingDealsMillionsMovementProgramLaborUnionsWorkersRadicalEstablishmentFactoriesBetter LifeJoining1930sConcessionsNew DealLabor Movement Author:Kshama Sawant
“If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.” IfsWorldQualityEnvironmentGenerationsBetter LifeFuture Generation Author:John Kasich
“It's a choice if you want to change your life for the better. Life is cause and effect, it's all about choices. And what you do today can deter the next 30 years of your life. You gotta be careful, you gotta pick your friends wisely.” IfsWantYearsTodayLife IsChoicesNextCausesEffectsPicksCarefulBe CarefulBetter LifeChanging Your LifeCause And Effect Author:Cory Hardrict
“You should really stop worrying, develop the real wish to live and with a good motivation, [such as] "I have a better life and I can put that life at the benefit of others."” ShouldI CanRealMotivationWishWorryBenefitsBetter LifeStop Worrying Author:Matthieu Ricard
“If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.” PeopleIfsWantDoeImportantWholeKidsWealthPoorClassPovertyAchievementImportant ThingsIncomeAfrican AmericanGapsWorking ClassBetter LifeAchievement GapAmerican Poverty Author:Barack Obama
“I said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very personal and legitimate perspective - I remember saying to her: I agree with you, from a moral perspective, that a child from Honduras is worth the same as my daughter. God is not a respecter of boundaries; he's not saying that American kids deserve a better life than Honduran kids. But I'm the president of the United States, and the nation-state by definition means that boundaries mean something and borders mean something.” MeanChildrenSaidStatesKidsRememberYoungSpeakNationsPresidentUnitedMoralUnited StatesPerspectiveDaughterDeserveAgreeWorkersDefinitionsBoundariesBordersMy DaughterActivistBetter LifeHondurasUndocumented Workers Author:Barack Obama
“First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.” GivingFirstsWellsChanceThank GodBetter LifeSecond ChanceGiven A ChanceGiven A Second Chance Author:Oksana Baiul
“Barack Obama's been president for about eight hours; President Obama was here for eight years. So if you want to talk about numbers that matter, it's quantifying all the losses - the women who were slid into poverty, those who can't find meaningful work, and their children who deserve a better life.” IfsWantYearsChildrenMatterPresidentHoursLossNumbersPovertyDeserveEightMeaningfulBarackPresident ObamaBetter LifeFind MeMeaningful Work Author:Kellyanne Conway
“As Latinos, you want [people] to come to America - not necessarily Latinos, but [anyone who wants] to come here for a better life. That's kind of how this country was founded and the history of this country.” PeopleWantKindCountryAmericaBetter LifeLatino Author:George Lopez
“I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.” MenWellsChildrenStatesEvery ManWell BeingCaliforniaBetter LifeMen Women Author:Jerry Brown
“Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.” PoorEconomyDemocracyGreedProvidingBetter LifeJohnson Author:Bill Moyers
“In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren't asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life.” PeopleGovernmentSawsCuttingToughBillionsEnormousBetter LifeSeekersElderlyPublic HealthEuroAsylumsPensionMigrantsHollandAusterityHealth ServicesAsylum Seekers Author:Geert Wilders
“I don't even blame pseudo-refugees for trying to have a better life in Holland. I blame our government for allowing it to happen; for not saying 'enough is enough you are not a refugee', we have to defend our own country and close our borders.” TryingCountryEnoughGovernmentHappensBlameBordersAllowingRefugeeBetter LifePseudoHollandEnough Is Enough Author:Geert Wilders
“There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.” PeopleWorldAround The WorldAspirationIranBetter Life Author:Barack Obama
“What we want for the Iranian people is control over their own government, which they don't have now. So you would do it through supplying resources and support from the outside to the indigenous people who are already quite unhappy. The mullahs have made hash of the economy since 1979, there's a huge amount of economic dissatisfaction. The young people, who are pretty well educated and sophisticated, know they could have a better life than this strict Islamic law.” PeopleKnowsWantWellsMadeGovernmentLawYoungSupportEconomyEconomicHugeAmountResourcesUnhappyEducatedIslamicSophisticatedStrictBetter LifeIndigenousDissatisfactionIranianIndigenous PeopleWell EducatedHashIslamic LawMullahs Author:John Bolton
“That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as well. It resonates with this moment and the sort of alienation from the power structure a lot of people feel, as well as a certain amount of desperation, in the hope of disrupting the power structure so they can live better lives. I think in those ways, it's intimately connected to today.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWellsKindMomentsTodayAmericaCertainCoursesAmountStructureConnectedInterpretationMelancholyDesperationBetter LifeAlienation Author:Peter van Agtmael
“Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.” PeopleHas BeensAmericaWake UpDeterminedAbandonedIgnoredBetter LifeNeglected Author:Donald Trump
“The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and the Polish did in generations before. A lot of the Irish came here back in the turn of the 19th to the 20th century because there were no opportunities and no options at home for them. There were no jobs and there was extreme poverty. They came here to be able to send money back home.” PeopleHomeAbleJobsAmericaTurnsOpportunityPovertyGenerationsCenturyMajorityJewExtremes20th CenturyBetter LifePolishBack HomeExtreme Poverty Author:Marty Walsh
“The majority of people who come to America come to America for a better life for their family.” PeopleAmericaMajorityBetter Life Author:Marty Walsh
“Do you want to live a better life? Do you really want to have a normal, optimistic outlook on life every day? Don't watch CNN. Don't read the New York Times.” WantWatchesNew YorkNormalOptimisticOutlookBetter LifeNew York TimesCnnOutlook On Life Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's a good feeling to be at a place where you know who you are as an artist. I didn't know back then, I just wanted to give my family a better life and myself. I wanted to sing, but I didn't know as an artist who I wanted to be and because of all those experiences, it helped shape me into who I am and what I've now realized and what it is that brings me happiness which is when I pick up the guitar and do records.” KnowsGivingFeelingsWantedArtistRecordsShapesPicksMy FamilyWho You AreGuitarWho I AmBetter LifeGood Feeling Author:Tiffany Villarreal
“I'm a Christian. I'm committed to Jesus Christ and I want people to know about Christ, because it's the most wonderful thing. People can say, 'I'll try and give up drugs,' or 'I'll try and live a better life,' but actually, if you're trapped in that lifestyle, you need, I think, some supernatural power to get you out of it. It's not easy to get out of the kind of lifestyles those people are in where all your family are criminals and all your friends are criminals - that is not an easy break to make, and it is a hard thing for a lot of these people.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsGivingTryingKindHardChristianJesusEasyChristBreakWonderfulDrugGiving UpJesus ChristCommittedCriminalsLifestyleOur FamilyTrappedWonderful ThingsBetter LifeHard ThingsEasy To GetSupernatural Powers Author:Nicky Gumbel
“To find something beautiful is to hope that your life will be better if that is a part of it. Unfortunately, the promise of a better life that beauty makes and the hope that it will be fulfilled are not always realized: beauty, like friendship, is also double-edged.” BeautifulPromiseBetter Life Author:Alexander Nehamas
“Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel.” PeopleChildrenGrowthOur ChildrenYour ChildrenDecentBetter Life Author:Billy Bragg
“I want everybody to find meaning in whatever they do. That's the only purpose to life, actually. Let that meaning be so strong that you can't not wake up every day and be like, "Yep, this is what I gotta do, let's keep it moving" and not be disgruntled about it, and start using other people as excuses for why you're not creating a better life for yourself.” PeopleMovingPurposeStrongWake UpExcuseBetter LifeFind Me Author:Ryan Guzman
“Especially now, the immigrant problem is very dramatic around the world. Because we don't know what to do with them. They're in economic crisis, and there are more and more. There will be more and more. We speak about globalization of economy, but it's also globalization for immigration. Millions of people, they're willing to have a better life. A better life, they cannot have it where they live, so they move.” PeopleWorldProblemMovingSpeakEconomyEconomicCrisisImmigrationDramaticGlobalizationBetter Life Author:Costa-Gavras
“People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.” PeopleTryingReasonSpeakDecisionEvidenceFinancialMedicalDecision MakingBetter LifeRumorBetter PersonReally True Author:Daniel Levitin
“I think it is possible for the world to see a Palestinian state - I'm not going to put a time frame on it - that is contiguous, that allows freedom of movement for its people, that allows for trade with other countries, that allows the creation of businesses and commerce so that people have a better life.” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryCreationTradePalestinianBetter Life Author:Barack Obama
“My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. But if you look at the track record America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that. And that I think is going to be an important task.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenImportantSometimesReasonMistakeEnemyExtraordinaryTrackCommunicateMaking MistakesPartnershipOrdinary PeopleBetter Life Author:Barack Obama
“I take music really seriously. I haven't been doing this for too long, but I've been loving music for a long time. It wasn't really about other artists. I just wanted to do something more for me. I wanted to make a better life for my mom. I didn't have any way to take care of her, and I wanted to make a better way. Music was an outlet, so I went with it, and there you go.” LongCareArtistMomMy MomTake CareBetter Life Author:Trinidad James
“I live a much better life without having to worry about people chasing me. I spent five years in prison from 21 to 26, which is probably the best part of my youth behind bars. I was in some very bad prisons overseas as well. It was not a fun life, it was a very lonely life in reality. I was a smart enough kid to know that I was going to get caught. The law sometimes sleeps, but the law never dies. I knew it was just a matter of time. I would be caught and I'd get punished and face the consequences.” PeopleSometimesEnoughRealityKidsFunSleepWorryYouthSmartConsequenceLonelyPrisonBetter Life Author:Frank Abagnale
“During the Reagan eighties, the idea that money was a good thing - it was good to be rich; that wealth was a reflection of your character. We see this today in perceptions of Donald Trump: the idea that money is an expression of success and even goodness. I compare that with my dad's generation, where the American Dream was about giving your kids a better life, but not just in material terms. The American Dream was also about doing something good in the world. The home was at the center of the dream, but home also represented community, shelter, and stability for your family.” WorldGivingCharacterHomeDreamKidsTodayTermCommunityWealthRichGoodnessPerceptionReflectionGood ThingsCompareOur FamilyStabilityAmerican DreamBetter Life Author:Lauren Greenfield
“For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a worthwhile one. But for me, hopefully the frontier is alliance-making across all the social issues, whereby people can get over whatever prejudices they're holding in order to keep their eyes on making livable lives for people in all states of vulnerability, no matter what their gender, sexuality, race, class, origin, whatever.” PeopleThinkingReasonEyeViolencePrejudiceGenderSexualityHopefullyVulnerabilityMarchBetter LifeSocial IssuesPragmatic Author:Maggie Nelson
“Under normal circumstances, women go through a lot; and breast cancer compounds the situation of our daily lives. Supporting other women is paying forward and cementing part of my legacy in giving my time in helping others to either live a better life or reach their full potential.” GivingHelpingSituationCircumstancesCancerHelping OthersLegacyDaily LifeBetter LifeBreast Cancer Author:Thelma Jones
“When we speak about climate change, you're a victim of something ... which is happening with deep roots where you don't have - anything to deal with. And people just want to choose a life. That's very much important. And I think one of the key elements of the collective battle we have today, in order to fight against climate change is to provide people the ability to choose a life. To have a better life by behaving differently, by innovating, by creating new type of companies and startups, new type of activities.” PeopleThinkingImportantTodayFightingSpeakAbilityBattleVictimClimate ChangeBetter Life Author:Emmanuel Macron
“The Democrats want illegal mirgation not they are humanitarian. This is not about compassion. This is not about love and a soft spot for people from these horrible places and wanting to give them a better life. This is about registering a bunch of future Democrat voters that are never gonna be able to fend or provide for themselves. This is about flooding this country with people who are going to be forever dependent on a government-run by Democrats.” PeopleGivingCountryCompassionForeverDemocratHumanitarianHorribleBetter Life Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.” KnowsYearsKidsWantedJobsLanguageParentBrotherMomDadHarderMy DadMy MomMy BrotherBetter LifeBetter Jobs Author:Mila Kunis