Quotes About Improvement

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Growth is not concerned with itself.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

To improve your memory, lend people money.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

I'm not perfect but I always try to give of my best.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I must always try to do better because perfectionism, and the need to always have new goals and achieve them, is a state of mind that brings profound meaning to life.