Quotes about improvement

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 been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

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

Your past isn’t there to decide who you are it’s there to guide you to a better version of yourself.

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

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

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

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

A woman with vision is unstoppable, a woman who is always increasing her skills multiplies. Along with passion this woman is undeniable.

We cannot keep on blaming the past leaders about the present circumstances. We need to be mindful that if we do nothing to improve the present circumstances, our children will also blame us in the future.

We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.

Change the way you treat your partner. Learn to treat your partner as you would yourself. Change the way you pray for your partner. Learn to pray unselfishly. Change the way you talk to your partner. Learn to speak life to him/her daily. Change the way you show love to your partner. Learn to do something different regularly. The more you change, the more your relationship changes for the better not to make you become bitter.

Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort--to obliterate complacency--and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.

Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be.

Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the only way to do it. Therefore, I say, let's try to get it done. And everybody says, 'difficult, difficult,' and nobody lifts a finger to try. And the only real difficulty is that everybody for one reason or another says that it's difficult. It's against human nature. Granted! Every decent thing is. It's socialism. Who cares?

Change plus innovation equals progress!

It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.

In order to fit our needs and wants, we are constantly adjusting and altering our behaviors and feelings. Metaphorically speaking, we are constantly giving birth to priorities; our priorities are perpetually reassessed and we perpetually adjust to accomplish them.Some call this "Change." I call it, improving ourselves by means through the inner self.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement.

Oh, of course I stumble. There are times when I’m confidently skipping along and then I trip over my own poorly-placed steps and fall face first into the thickets. But I think there’s a sort of beauty in falling. Each time I fall, I’m reminded that I’m still human, that I’m still learning, that there will always be more lessons, growth, and discovery up ahead. So, although I have times when I’m weak, when I’m critical of myself, or I lose hope, I wouldn’t give them up for the world. I cherish th

Stop making someone else's looks your "#goals". By all means aspire to be a better version of your current self, but don't glorify others when you yourself are glorious.

Work like playing a video game, we can't move to a higher level by skipping or being bad at lower levels, the lower levels are made easy to polish our skill sets & analytic skills, like a video game treat even the daily routine work as a preparation to be battle worthy for the tougher stages, never pick & chose the occasion or situation to perform better.

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.

The real perfectibility of man may be illustrated, as I havementioned before, by the perfectibility of a plant. The object of theenterprising florist is, as I conceive, to unite size, symmetry, and beautyof colour. It would surely be presumptuous in the most successfulimprover to affirm, that he possessed a carnation in which thesequalities existed in the greatest possible state of perfection. Howeverbeautiful his flower may be, other care, other soil, or other suns, mightproduce one still more

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

Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice. -Paul Wellstone (Minnesota Senator, Al Franken predecessor)

God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice trial and error. His ways are sure, they may be low but they are always sure.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

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

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, “Let America be America again/ Let it be the dream it used to be,” he acknowledges that America is primarily a dream, a hope, an aspiration, that may never be fully attainable, but that spurs us to be better, to be larger. He follows this with the repeated counterpoint, “America never was America to me,” and through the rest of this remarkable poem he alternates between the oppressed and the wronged of America, and the great dreams that the

Always improve on things you do better and faster.

People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it is they were called to do..

In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you do them.

Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.

To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life.

It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could improve me than to just waste time discussing irrelevant things.

Humans' eyes cannot take in information when there is zero light reflecting back

Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn’t be motivated to improve.

Don't be afraid of challenges. Let them take you somewhere new.

To become better you, look nowhere else for greatness. All you need to improve and succeed are right there in you.

A point to prove is not about always being right, it’s all about exceeding the expectations, and the expectations can only be surpassed if taken as a challenge, when taken as a burden it slows down our journey to success.

Where can you find opportunities? Dissect your excuses and you will find opportunities in abundance.

Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.

It's never easy when you're constantly looking to become more.

It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth?

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults?...Or shall it rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union

You and I must work together to develop Nigeria to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve all the basic essentials.

The people who had been recognized for making original contributions shared many more stories that started negatively but surged upward: they struggled early and triumphed later. Despite being confronted with more negative events, they reported greater satisfaction with their lives and a stronger sense of purpose.

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

Life isn’t about being perfect; it’s about improving. It’s not about achieving more, acquiring more, or even about actually being more. It’s about becoming better…better than you were.

Knowing the man responsible for your success is in the mirror is a high that you can never buy

Appreciate every little improvement. Forget to criticize every failure as long as you are learning from them.

Never deviate from the right way and you will improve.

Grow your talents and skills through a consistent practice and progressive learning. Learn to relearn and unlearn. Raise the bar for yourself always.

Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.

Keep Trying is what it means to resolve to do something.

A FAILED RESOLUTION IS NOT THE FAULT OF RESOLUTIONS.

To be resolved to something is a reflection of your inner core, not the nature of resolving.

Never become impatient with the process, bored with the pace, frustrated at the meager results, just keep trying.

Never give up because when you give up, dreams get lost.

Sometimes, we can't see our progress. We live our lives every day and can't see how much has changed. I think we all need a piece of reality every once in a while, some item to show us how far we have come from our past to our present. We get so lost in trying to get gratification for our work right away that we forget our small progressive steps. And then, we get a reality check, we see a piece of our past that shows us that everything we've done thus far has been worth it. Maybe you see a piec

I have no regrets from my past only pride over how far I have come to be the person I am today and hope that tomorrow I will be even better.

Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it.

There are things you need to know that you already know.

One’s skill is never complete, one’s knowledge is forever lacking, one’s taste is invariably altered, one’s opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement.

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

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

Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so many years without self-improvement

Highlighting strengths increases sales.

Good sales copy creates good sales.

In sales, every prospect is a potential customer.

In order to sell, salespersons have to correctly evaluate and cater to customer choices.

Retail selling benefits from aggressive publicity.

A team succeeds where an individual fails.

Some team members act as adhesives to unite the team.

Change is constant.

Time well-spent is life well-lived.

Relationships are built on trust.

Time management is essential for a work-life balance.

Compromise makes relationships survive.

Sometimes, changing circumstances also changes relationships.

Good times don’t last and bad times don’t stay forever.

Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo.

Perseverance guarantees success.

Strategy is influenced by circumstances.

Knowledge is something that fire cannot burn, water cannot wet, air cannot dry, thieves cannot steal, and the more you spend the more it increases.

In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated.

Experience is costly knowledge.