Improvement Quotes

A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an improvement in life, and they're taking advantage of it.

If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

The problem with most people! Is that you're not obsessed with improvement.

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

In fact, I have a problem with too much money... I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.

Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Change is inevitable, progress is not.