Quotes About Improvement

Oh , kinda playing things by ear

For what is a curse but an unfair theft of strength. (Whatever is attempted in the way of improving your position brings back less than the effort exerted.)

If these really smart philosophers can't agree on what wisdom says, why should I pay them any attention? The answer is——because it's the best shot you've got. If you seriously want to improve your opinions, there's nothing better you can do than engage in a conversation with the best minds our history has produced.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

Alert people everywhere are finding that by trying prayer power they feel better, work better, do better, sleep better, are better.

Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.

I have operated on dozens and dozens of people to improve deficient features only to find that, after surgery, they replaced this real physical fault in their minds with a nonsensical belief which continued their unswerving fixation on their inferiority. Their negative beliefs varied; their movement toward failure was the same kind of mechanism.

each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better 

People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.

When you know better...You do better.

People believe marriage will make us better.

When you know better, you do better." —Maya Angelou

The more you know of your own line of work, by so much do you set yourself a little apart from a hundred of your competitors who are content to let well enough alone.

Growth everywhere neutralizes decay. So long as we keep growing, renewing the mind, constantly reaching out for the new and progressive, the retrograding, disintegrating, aging, deteriorating processes cannot be operative.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, says Mary Wortley Montagu; nor any pleasure so lasting. Good books elevate the character, purify the taste, take the attractiveness out of low pleasures, and lift us upon a higher plane of thinking and living. It is not easy to be mean directly after reading a noble and inspiring book. The conversation of a man who reads for improvement or pleasure will be flavored by his reading; but it will not be about his reading.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better.

The trouble was, innovation never resulted in victory over the long term. It was too easy for the enemy to imitate and improve on your innovations.

What I have lived by is this: Whatever I need to know, and don't, I must learn. And if learning it fights against my natural inclinations, then it's all the more important that I learn it anyway.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them — noticing them — that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

Los sabios no son sabios porque no cometan errores. Son sabios porque corrigen sus errores en cuanto los reconocen.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar