Quotes About Improvement

studies show that when a woman leaves one partner for another, she invariably moves up the scale to a better compromise

Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

Truly, the girl had grown up. Althea recalled ashamedly that she had once felt that some hardship would improve Malta. Undoubtedly she had been improved, but the cost had been high.

The years have come and gone in their scores of turnings, and night after night I still take pen in hand and write. Still I strive to understand who I am. Still I promise myself, 'Next time I will do better' in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a 'next time'.

A true priest of Sa had little use for guilt. It but obscured; if something made a man feel bad then he must determine what about it troubled him, and eliminate that. Simply to suffer the discomforts of guilt did not indicate a man had improved himself, only that he suspected he harbored a fault.

Once you are a father, you have to try to be a better man than you truly are.

She didn't want to love save her, but to add to what was already good.

big! You're growing

Either we need more love or we're giving more love, but either way this is a miraculous and wonderful improvement for all mankind, womankind and book kind.

opposable thumbs than any prior.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

each change, painful though some of them will be, will make us a little better than we were before.

I'm trying to ruin it! Will had bellowed back. So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's corn bread-stale and dry.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This-- I held out my hands --this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. Tread lightly on the paths, he had told me. Others will come when you have gone. That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.

he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man.

I like them all. There's bits and pieces of books that I think are good. I never rework a book. I'd rather use what I've learned on the next one, and make it a little bit better. The worst of it is that I'm no longer a kid and I'm just now getting to be a good writer. Just now.

There, I've done my best. If that wont do, I shall have to wait till I can do better.

Salt is like good humor, and nearly everything is better for a pinch of it.

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever.

Criticism is the best test of such work, for it will show her both unsuspected merits and faults, and help her to do better next time. We are too partial; but the praise and blame of outsiders will prove useful...