Improvement Quotes

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The Ame...

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that co...

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our live...

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but...

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of t...

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them o...

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can n...

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processe...

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You...

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land...

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land...

To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstr...

I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain ...

Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They want...

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a ...

Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better.

Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's ...

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness...

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly remin...

The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improv...

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is fre...

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps ...

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

Now, it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, [God] r...

I write fiction""What’s fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing i...

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country an...

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers...

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a be...

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If ...

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. T...

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep try...

…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge a...

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in so...

The most important thing you can do is to get into an iteration cycle where you can measure the impa...

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion ...

Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanatic...

Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the o...

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, “Let America be America again/ Let it be the...

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon...

[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in...

If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the c...

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to...

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous ...

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to West...

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I belie...

It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how y...

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WI...

... Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recogn...