Improvement Quotes

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Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
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
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
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
I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game. — Duncan Keith
Beer is an improvement on water itself. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team. — Mike Krzyzewski
There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help. — Jason Kidd
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. — Bernard Berenson
Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry? — Zig Ziglar
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
The things which hurt, instruct. — Benjamin Franklin

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