Quotes About Improvement

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

I think that Undertaker, more than anybody in the industry, looks at his performance every single night, and no matter how good it is, even if it's perfect and sees it, that it could have been a little bit better. He's one of those guys.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

In revering the Founders, we undervalue ourselves and sabotage our own efforts to make improvements - necessary improvements - in the republican experiment they began.

In my childhood, we had only one toilet. It was my dream then to have a good bathroom where you can have undisturbed bath.

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Regarding the VAR, it is a tool that can undoubtedly make us better. You have to use it because it gives us a clearer view of reality when you have to make quick decisions.

What's true for New York is true for most of the country: We are a long way removed from the double-digit interest rates and unemployment rates, and the soaring crime rates, of the early 1980s.

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

I just have to continue to get better and continue to learn. Whatever unfolds, I want people to know I stayed a pro and performed.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

When we do things with love, we gain the knowledge and wisdom and do it better.

Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change.

Consistency is good, but progress is better.

Practice brings better results than prayer.

THE INTENTION OF LIFE IS NOT TO REMAIN, BUT TO EVOLVE TO SOMETHING BETTER THAN IT WAS BEFORE AT EVERY STAGE, AND FINALLY, TO SOMETHING WONDERFUL.

The best way to discredit something is to come with a better way of doing that thing.

Feedback is to success like rest is to the body.

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.