Improvement Quotes

1077 Improvement quotes by 727 unique authors

For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for… — Gene Roddenberry
I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a… — James Van Fleet
But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age. — Unknown Author
We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using… — Max Frisch
We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future,… — Frances E. Willard
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant… — Daisaku Ikeda
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. — Margaret Spellings
God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't… — Chuck Smith
The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding. — Agathon
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest… — Richard Fortey
It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy. — Chrissie Wellington
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in… — Fred Brooks
I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change.… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the… — Ernest Dimnet
President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love,… — H. Burke Peterson
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike… — Frances Wright
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our… — Terry Eagleton
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… — John Redwood
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… — Park Geun-hye
Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more. — George H. W. Bush
Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor… — Thomas Paine
The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as… — Ludwig von Mises
Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered… — P T Barnum
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with… — Thom Gunn

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