Improvement Quotes
1077 quotes by 727 authors
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Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.
— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever…
— Adolf Hitler
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss…
— William Penn
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I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the…
— George Washington
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I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.
— Duncan Keith
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Beer is an improvement on water itself.
— Unknown Author
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Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
— Elizabeth Carter
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,…
— John Updike
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this…
— William E. Gladstone
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some…
— Philip James Bailey
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
— John Stuart Mill
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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change,…
— Theodore Levitt
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When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement…
— John Wooden
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I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.
— Jason Kidd
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
— Bernard Berenson
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?
— Zig Ziglar
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How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The things which hurt, instruct.
— Benjamin Franklin
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