Improvement Quotes

1077 Improvement quotes by 727 unique authors

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. — Eric Hoffer
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under. — Sam Houston
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. — Elbert Hubbard
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally… — Kurt Huber
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. — Aldous Huxley
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of… — Thomas Jefferson
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the… — Steve Jobs
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying… — Tony Judt
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. — Christopher Lasch
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. — Christopher Lasch
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. — Bruce Lee
For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at. — Geddy Lee
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. — Abraham Lincoln
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. — John Locke
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. — Maxwell Maltz
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning… — Golda Meir
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in… — Lionel Messi
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil,… — Henry Miller
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can… — Johann Most
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design… — Elon Musk
There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on… — Ingrid Newkirk
You only grow when you are alone. — Paul Newman
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. — George Orwell

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