Quotes About Improvement

We need to take an evolutionary leap forward

These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

At this time the country needs to regain equilibrium and direction. It needs to recover the memory of the best it has done, and then try to do it all better.

You know, I actually sort of enjoy my life. I know I shouldn't. It could stand a lot of improvement. But maybe it's the feeling you have that makes a life bad. Or makes it all right enough most of the time.

Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them

Like any other parent he wanted his children to go to better schools and mix with better companions

Historians say that revolutions come in a country not when things are at their worst but when they begin to improve, when an entire generation has been well fed, sheltered, and educated so that it feels its strength in a way previous generations, ignorant, ill fed, and unhealthy, did not.

He knew there was no road map for this session. That was not how interrogation worked. Conversations were improvisational.

The ego needs all the help it can get. We can all benefit from getting over ourselves.

Once the first draft is done, the really tough work begins.

Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to start by getting better. Start doing better. Good, better, best. That's how it works.

Staying the same isn't enough because yesterday's success can easily become tomorrow's mediocrity.

Take life one day at a time, and make each day better than the last.

Mark Sanborn

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Uno y otro deben estar aprendiendo hasta

And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.

So I was put into the bed and still felt bolnoy but could not sleep, but soon I started to feel that soon I might start to feel that I might soon start feeling just a malenky bit better.

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.

Everything alters, yet does remain the same. It might even improve matters.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.