Quotes About Improvement

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

'Cause mo better makes it mo better.

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

As I'm sure you know, the expression 'It's all uphill from here' has nothing to do with walking up stairs - it merely means that things will get better in the future.

Seguro que sabéis que cuando uno está en su propia habitación, en su propia cama, una situación triste puede mejorar un poco

I was tired of working in the lumber industry," Phil said. "I was sure I could find a better job, and look at me now—cook on a dilapidated submarine. Life keeps on getting better and better." "You always were an optimist," Klaus said.

As I play the game of life I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night The magic of the music seems to light the way.

But to be the best, to reach the pinnacle, requires self-denial, sacrifice, discipline, humility, and preparation. You have to hurt yourself, scold yourself, analyze yourself, recognize your weaknesses at the same time you try to eliminate them.

I might be a bit slow, but I can learn.

If you up your skill and take more chances, your odds of success increase.

Today I resolve to take writing seriously, to keep going and never stop, to learn everything I can and make it as a writer.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

You are very right in supposing how my money would be spent – some of it, at least – my loose cash would certainly be employed in improving my collection of music and books." – Marianne Dashwood

All this she must possess, added Darcy, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time. Yes, replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

she cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal.

two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia's example, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant

In essentials I believe Mr. Darcy is very much what he ever was. When I said that he improved on acquaintance, I did not mean that either his mind or manners were in a state of improvement. But that from knowing him better his disposition was better understood.

His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart;

two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper