Improvement Quotes

1077 Improvement quotes by 727 unique authors

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner. — Joyce Meyer
No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club,… — George Carlin
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to… — John Stuart Mill
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of… — Madonna Ciccone
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with… — Jon Stewart
All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole… — Anne Frank
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.… — Julian Barnes
Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart! — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very… — Chuck Klosterman
There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may… — John O'Donohue
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. — Malcolm Gladwell
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical… — Bertrand Russell
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,… — Brenda Ueland
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. — Christopher Morley
He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars.… — Marisha Pessl
On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says,… — Kurt Vonnegut
Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. — Michael Jordan
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. — Chuck Palahniuk
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out… — Edward de Bono
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. — Jane Austen
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill
The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.)… — Samuel Beckett
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the… — John Cage

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