Improvement Quotes
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.
When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.
You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.
The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress.
We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
