Improvement Quotes

1077 Improvement quotes by 727 unique authors

Vanity prevents improvement — Ali ibn Abi Talib
And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals… — Jason Reitman
I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I… — Frontinus
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only… — Will Durant
Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others. — Jim Rohn
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,… — Charles Darwin
Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental… — Neal A. Maxwell
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing… — Mark Zuckerberg
America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement… — Dinesh D'Souza
The secret art of inviting blessings. Â The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat these words… — Mikao Usui
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. — Colson Whitehead
No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience… — Richard G. Scott
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my… — Dan Simmons
Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next… — Sebastian Coe
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. — Ludwig van Beethoven
The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement. — Brendan Brazier
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete. — Naomi Wolf
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and… — Frederick Sanger
You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement. — Shunryu Suzuki
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education. — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film. — Dennis Miller
When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power… — P.J. O'Rourke
As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly… — Jonathon Porritt
We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has… — Paul Hawken
Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye! — Jon Jones

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