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Quotes About Improvement

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
~ Edward Gibbon
If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
~ Edward Koch
Mastery means making progress at a task that matters to you and is challenging.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
~ Edward Teller
Engineers are, by definition, people whose work is dedicated to making people's lives easier; or, as people used to say, whose work is dedicated to progress.
~ Edward Teller
I feel towards persons as I do towards art, — constructively. Find all the good first. Judge by what has been done, — not by omissions or mistakes. And look well into oneself! A life can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
~ Edward Weston
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
~ Edward Young
Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change – from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Destruction is News, not Construction.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Every language carries phenomenal knowledge within it; never depend on your language only; otherwise, you can neither improve that nor become aware of new things; therefore, read and learn that continuously.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Everyone learns every day as its capability on every step.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The Changes The Chances The Choices Such changes do not improve the ways of your life: The chances, which morally damage you, leave it. The choices, among the awkward things, simply ignore it. Be happy, and satisfied with what you have, it is your success.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
You can never learn if you can never realize your flaws and mistakes.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The best thing you can do for a writer is give them a bad review.
~ Eileen Myles
I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training.
~ Elaine Dundy
If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
~ Elaine MacDonald
A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
~ Elaine MacDonald
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can grow only as long as we are interested.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I always have to prove that I can be better
~ Elena Ferrante
Naples was the great European metropolis where faith in technology, in science, in economic development, in the kindness of nature, in history that leads of necessity to improvement, in democracy, was revealed, most clearly and far in advance, to be completely without foundation.
~ Elena Ferrante
That made me think that this story would continue forever, recounting now the efforts of children without privileges to improve themselves by getting books from the old shelves, as Lila and I had done as girls, and now the thread of seductive chatter, promises, deceptions, of blood that prevents any true improvement in my city or in the world.
~ Elena Ferrante