Quotes About Improvement

You may bring about that improved condition in your outward life which you desire, if you will unswervingly resolve to improve your inner life.

Both the synthetic and creative faculties of imagination become more alert with use, just as any muscle or organ of the body develops through use.

When you do your work better To-day than Yesterday you realize your genuine Capacity and know that there is no actual Perfection except the Perfection of doing better To-day than Yesterday.

Galton recognized that in order to win people to his cause, he would need, as he put it, "a brief word to express the science of improving stock." In 1883, he came up with an enduring term: eugenics.

God wants us to perform good deeds--to repair what's broken, to make things better in the world.

Are you an idiot? I'm in training.

Aviso al doctor? -preguntó Sempere hijo. -Ya estoy mejor, gracias. Mucho mejor. -Pues tiene usted una manera de mejorar que pone los pelos de punta. Está usted gris.

Todo en la vida lo ha hecho alguien antes, al menos lo que vale la pena hacer. El truco está en tratar de hacerlo un poco mejor.

Every time he calls, I nag him to study." "I hear that boys don't like to be nagged." "Me too, but it's irresistible. You always want to take the boy and mold him into something better.

May all the ones ahead be better than those that have already passed.

Yes, Manda. You're becoming a good detective.

I think we are here to make the world a better place then we found it. I think we do not always deserve the cards that we are dealt-good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we are dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good-we just have to work a little more is all. There is no destiny. There is just muddling through without doing too much damage. ---Kitty Norville

d]espotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvements, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.

He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would have been reading your books every time you laid them down to see how I could improve my skills and please you. Second warning of the night. I bought a couple. You bought a couple of what? Historical romances. I'm three-quarters through the first one. He flashed her a slow grin. All I can say is, I like the way your mind works. ~Jake Coulter and Molly Wells

Even now, at just three years old, it is obvious that Luke longs to fly. It is like seeing Anakin all over again. The mop of unruly blond hair, the bright blue eyes, the hands permanently tinkering. Luke isn't content to just play with his toys. He's constantly at work modifying them, making improvements.

One of the very few valid criticisms of Queen Victoria is that she was not sufficiently concerned with improvement of the conditions in which a great mass of her subjects passed their lives. She lived through an age of profound social change, but neither public health, nor housing, nor the education of her people, nor their representation, engaged much of her time.

It is progress." Kurt's continuing justifications filled the silence. "To eliminate weakness. To promote strength. For the greater good. Ultimately, it would have led to the improvement of the whole human race. One day the world will understand the wisdom of such actions.

Without a role model, there's no incentive to get better.

The same things we were doing when we were 1-13 were the same things we were doing in 1975. But with much better players.

A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses.

About accidents we do not have many choices. Our job is to make better the world God gave us. We are partners with God. One day you will understand. We have to work hard to make it a good world. But it is not an impossible job.

Basically it's none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we're on the trail of the law of our own growth.

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

You can get more skilled, Sookie, but can't get any better.