Best 642 quotes in «improvement quotes» category

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!

I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement.

I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there's always room for improvement.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.

If we are going to have any improvement in U.S.-Russia relations - which I think should be an objective of the United States - we don't want to stay where we are. We'd like for this to be more constructive. Then we're going to have to see progress on Ukraine.

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 its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

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 more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.

I'm focused on doing what makes me happiest and on how I can make real improvements and contributions to my immediate niche, i.e. my family, friends, and local community.

I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

I still have a lot of room for improvement.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

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.

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

Ive always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.