Improvement Quotes

1077 Improvement quotes by 727 unique authors

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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. — Berthold Auerbach
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically.… — Charles Lindbergh
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something. — Brian Tracy
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. — Samuel Johnson
To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really… — John C. Maxwell
People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success.… — John C. Maxwell
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. — Immanuel Kant
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest… — John Ruskin

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