Quotes About Improvement

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself.

The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, 'You could have done better'

king himself is as sunny as the mornings. He declares that he is well again, much better

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

But I have so much to learn!" Zane cried plaintively. "Then get to it, Death," she said, closing the door behind her.

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve

If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.

but I would contend at all costs in both word and deed as far as I could that we will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not [c] know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

The good soul, by her own excellence, improves the body as far as this may be possible.

that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Sbagliare non era più un infortunio vagamente comico, che ti guasta un esame o ti abbassa il voto: sbagliare era come quando si va su roccia, un misurarsi, un accorgersi, uno scalino in su, che ti rende più valente e più adatto.

For your happy man is a benefactor to his species. Just as one may gather knowledge from the wise, so, by contact with the happy, may one improve one's spirits; a truth deserving of consideration by the middle-aged.

It's bound to be better than my first date! she told him.

life is a work in progress.

Don't play to your strengths," Jess told her. "Strengthen your weaknesses.

Life is a work is progress.

Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better.