Improvement Quotes

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

There is always room for improvement.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.

I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.

All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it's the will that gives us the ability to focus

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

We must become what we wish to teach.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.