Quotes About Improvement

It would be a desirable and enviable existence just to earn a decent wage at a worthwhile job and spend all one's leisure hours improving one's aesthetic appreciation. There is so much to appreciate, and it is all available for peanuts. One can plausibly aspire to seeing, hearing and reading everything that matters.

Cruelty could be designed-out. It's advertising is deficient.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?

I think it's just people. They always hope there may be something better.

The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually set out to get it. That every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

In his spare moments he is studying to improve his Greek. Old Bishop Fisher was in his seventies when he began the language, and he is not to be bested by a dead prelate. In a year or two, he wishes to be able to join the divines in their subtle dissection of each point of translation

Bawling, strong, one hour old, plucked from the cradle: he kissed the infant's fluffy skull and said, I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?

he kissed the infant's fluffy skull and said, I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children if each generation does not improve on what went before.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

NOEL: And even when I don't stay up until midnight, I still enjoy the tradition of New Year's resolutions. What can I say? I like setting personal goals and challenging myself to improve. I suppose I could do it on any day of the year, but the New Year is as good a day as any. It's a fresh start.

Who does not grow, declines.

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

En los últimos 100 años la medicina ha hecho grandes avances. Irónicamente el número de personas que enferman sigue en aumento. Si la medicina ha progresado de verdad, ¿por qué no hay menos enfermos?

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

Niezale?nie od tego, iloma przedmiotami ?onglujesz, masz tylko dwie r?ce, wi?c rzuca? mo?esz tylko dwie rzeczy naraz. Po prostu musisz to zrobi? coraz szybciej i szybciej, rzuca? coraz wy?ej.

if i can't be better than them i'll become much worse

My advice," says Val Moren, "is tgat you learn to juggle better than I did, seneschal.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself.

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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.