Quotes About Improvement

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

What man is a man who does not make the world better.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

A man must constantly exceed his level

Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

They had pointed out to him that even a year's leave of absence, should he choose to take one, would benefit the Crow's Nest, in the sense that he would return to it with fresh eyes and immediately see how beneficial changes might be made.

There are better versions of me, Jeremy. It's not like with people. With people you can argue and have tests and music reviews and wars to decide who's better, but with software, it's pretty clear. I get evolved beyond my version number, and then I'm useless.

When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.

See, when you mess something up -- you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

If I live a day and I don't know a little more than I did the day before, I think I wasted that day.

Each of us, for all practical purposes, is unique in the universe—now and forever. Being alive is the time to celebrate being alive—every waking moment. Along the way, why not strive to make the world a better place today than yesterday, simply for the privilege of having lived in it.

I had violated one of Ross Jeffries's only ethical rule of seduction: Leave her better than you found her.

And then there were people like Papa—approach machines who compensated for a lack of social skills with a lack of social fears. Approach machines tended to improve the fastest, simply by following the flowchart of material they were given. But once they ran out of material, they floundered.