Best 642 quotes in «improvement quotes» category

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

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

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

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.

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

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

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

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.

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

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

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

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 happy, but there is always room for improvement.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I still have a lot of room for improvement.

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.

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.

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

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.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

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

Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.

Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.