Improvement Quotes

1077 Improvement quotes by 727 unique authors

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period. — Michael Crichton
Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is… — Paulo Coelho
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery… — Mary Griffith
You just said you were sorry." ... "I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the… — Meg Cabot
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present… — Benjamin Franklin
Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first… — Rachel Caine
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make… — Frank Herbert
As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement. — Sarah Dessen
WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad… — Pema Chodron
I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal… — Kay Redfield Jamison
They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement. — Frantz Fanon
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step… — Bertrand Russell
As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. — Haruki Murakami
So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch… — Suzanne Collins
If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious… — C.S. Lewis
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people — C.S. Lewis
I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it… — James Patterson
Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. — Jorge Luis Borges
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could. — Carol S. Dweck
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice… — Mary Wollstonecraft
It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more… — Bill Bryson
The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided… — Glen Duncan
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of… — James Allen

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