Quotes About Improvement

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

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

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I dont know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.