Improvement Quotes

He hadn't meant to get so angry at Morgan. He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For many things.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible ofimprovement

~ Thomas Robert Malthus

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Improving the human condition takes little effort, destroying it takes maximum force.

~ T.f. Hodge

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

~ Amit Kalantri

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

~ Criss Jami

I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn’t make myself any better because of it.And that’s not okay with me.

~ Dan Pearce

If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.

~ James Joyce

It is impossible not to be a winner if you place your faith in God and believe in your ability to constantly improve.

~ Hafiz

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

~ Dan Pearce

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

~ Auliq Ice

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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

~ Colson Whitehead

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

~ Raheel Farooq

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

~ Max Mckeown

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoonthat is better than a spoon

~ Umberto Eco

To improve quality of life, to evolve into a better version of ourselves, to pause in recognition of blessings with only our name on the tag, to dance in graitutde, to embrance with abandon, to give without receiving, to seek the face of God ... all this and more is why we exisit.

~ Toni Sorenson

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

~ David Mitchell

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

~ Dale Ludwig

You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.You’re doing just fine.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up.

~ Lacey Sturm

If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate it, I am probably too comfortable and proud to try to question myself.

~ Criss Jami

The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.

~ Daniel Willey

I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

~ L.k. Elliott

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

~ Craig Ferguson

No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.

~ Matthew T. Cross

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory.

~ Alain De Botton

The most important thing you can do is to get into an iteration cycle where you can measure the impact of your work, have a hypothesis about how making changes will affect those variables, and ship changes regularly. It doesn't even matter that much what the content is - it's the iteration of hypothesis, changes, and measurement that will make you better at a faster rate than anything else we have seen.

~ Gabe Newell

You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement.

~ Steve Shallenberger

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

~ Arthur Quiller-Couch

There is always much to be learned from bad times, and to many people who prosper, they get good lessons from bad times inorder to find the way out.

~ Auliq Ice

Learn from the past but use the present to create the future.

~ Auliq Ice

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

~ Christopher Moore

Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows.

~ Chris Matakas

The best yardstick for our progress is not other people, but ourselves. Am I better than I was yesterday? This is the only question worth asking. As long as you go to bed at night a better practitioner than the one who woke up that morning, you have succeeded. Your worth should have nothing to do with how your progress stacks up relative to another.

~ Chris Matakas

A sous-chef with dreams of her own restaurant empire may have mastered the art of classical French sauce making, but not yet have developed the signature cooking style she imagines as the cornerstone of her own chain of restaurants. She gauges her progress not only by whether she is moving toward her aspirations, but also by her improving skills. Our chef may not yet have the stature of Chef Auguste Escoffier or Emeril Lagasse, but she can remember a time when she could not name the five French mother sauces, let alone execute them. She's made progress. Appreciating the skills she has developed is a marker along the path toward her culinary aspirations. The sense of accomplishment that accompanies improved skills is one of the rewards we reap when we dedicate ourselves to mastery.

~ Marian Deegan

It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

~ Michael J. Fox

English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.

~ Dean Wesley Smith

When you keep seeking to improve, you will never get bored with your craft.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

~ Rachel Cohn