Quotes About Improvement

Only the insane equate pain with success. The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die. _Cheshire Cat

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!

Make a better history

There is no progress without cost.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

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

can't do this. I suck at this. Which is why they're making me go. Not to improve my swimming—who cares about that?—but to work on that whole playing-well-with-others thing. Another one of my broken bits. I don't want to socialize with other kids. I don't trust 'em, I don't like 'em, and best I can tell, the feeling's mutual.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

Society's future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.