Improvement Quotes

1077 Improvement quotes by 727 unique authors

Practice without improvement is meaningless. — Chuck Knox
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values. — Tony Dungy
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement — Pierre de Coubertin
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter… — Unknown Author
Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement. — Ashleigh Brilliant
The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. — Thomas Jefferson
The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals… — Thomas Jefferson
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet… — Ernest Hemingway
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can… — Ezra Cornell
It's been just a year since the RNC committed to revamp the way they help our candidates with its 'Growth and Opportunity Project,' and already… — Karl Rove
I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a… — H.G. Wells
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail… — Ansel Adams
I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it. — Mindy Kaling
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade. — Tom Peters
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but… — John Dewey
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road… — Charles Kettering
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value. — Mark Twain
You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life… — Milton Friedman
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous… — Ludwig von Mises
Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That's the only way it happens-and when it happens, it… — John Wooden
Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy… — Sarah Beeny
Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and… — M R DeHaan
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements… — Alexander Hamilton

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