Quotes About Improvement

I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country and our world.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

If you're not interested in getting better, it's time for you to stop leading.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.