Quotes About Improvement

I think about the notion of progress; sometimes it does feel like two steps forward, one step back. And that just means you can't get complacent.

Every great basketball team, every team that's on a championship journey takes steps each year, taking a step further than they were the year before.

It's not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by the awareness that nothing will improve. No coming days will dawn brighter than the last that dawned, and this sorrow is further deepened by a fear of death…

The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

A wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government

Still one thing more, fellow citizens—a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Science is unique among human ways of knowing because it is self-correcting. Every

Change equals growth.

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.

Better the day, better the deed.

We now see all over Europe, and particularly in England, the curious phenomenon of a nation looking one way, and the government the other - the one forward and the other backward. If governments are to go on by precedent, while nations go on by improvement, they must at last come to a final separation; and the sooner and the more civilly they determine this point, the better.

The most effectual process is that of improving the condition of man by means of his interest.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers. Most are worse. But a few are better." —HOMER, The Odyssey.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Buda era un profundo filósofo y psicólogo cuyas enseñanzas nos pueden impulsar a mejorar nuestras vidas. Uno no necesita considerarse budista para practicar estas técnicas. La auténtica práctica espiritual va más allá de los compartimentos de los "ismos". Como Su Santidad el Dalai Lama dice a menudo: "La compasión no es propiedad de ninguna religión ni de ningún credo".

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.