Improvement Quotes

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Changes made by management today make no improvement.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.

If you want to grow a muscle, you must lift something out of your comfort zone. Push beyond what is comfortable, if you don't there will be no growth.

Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter

I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

Success is the potential destiny of all created things

Be the best at what you do

Screw it, let's do it - Just get on with it and do it

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

See things the way they are not worse than they are

I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.