Quotes About Improvement

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

To try to be better is to be better.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Progress - the stride of God!

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Better is the enemy of the good.

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The way you get better at playing football is to play football.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded.

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising, and they wouldn't have to advertise.