Improve Quotes
1602 quotes by 1176 authors
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What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
— Jodi Picoult
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To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but…
— Walt Disney
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...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
— Tracy Kidder
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Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people…
— Jeff Kinney
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As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind.…
— John H. Groberg
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Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
— Norton Juster
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I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas…
— Charles M. Schulz
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name,…
— Suzanne Collins
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What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
— Oscar Wilde
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If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.
— Tom Rath
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If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
— Paulo Coelho
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I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I…
— Milan Kundera
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Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
— Richard Yates
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We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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