Quotes About Improvement

Every friend loves to change for the best; but few really do.

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

Here's a tip though', he told me, leaning over and pressing a hand into my shoulder. 'If you want to improve your time, run faster.

You know, that's what's wrong with us on the public level. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better. Our society is hurtling in free fall toward heaven knows where

The Stone Age didn't end because people ran out of stones. It ended because people kept learning and improving

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day.

If you keep nonproductive people, the productive ones become frustrated and leave. If you remove the people who don't add value, then the whole team gets better. It's just like trimming trees: If you don't cut the deadwood, eventually the whole tree falls. But if you remove the deadwood, the tree becomes healthier, the healthy branches produce more, and there's room for productive new branches on the tree.

What's true for a teammate is also true for the leader: If you don't grow, you gotta go.

To lead any way other than by example, we send a fuzzy picture of leadership to others. If we work on improving ourselves first and make that our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.

The book you don't read can't help you; the seminar you won't attend can't change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it." —Stephen Covey

Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

you must be able to take the new thing you've learned today and build upon what you learned yesterday to keep growing.

If you make it your discipline to do a little bit of growing every day, in just a few years you will be amazed by your transformation.

Failure isn't failure if you do better the next time.

When I teach and mentor leaders, I remind them that if they stop learning, they stop leading

To be effective, leaders must always be learners. You can never arrive - you can only strive to get better.

It will add to your effectiveness, subtract from your weaknesses, divide your workload, and multiply your impact.

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

When an archer misses the mark he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

But I've come to realize that failure is a process. If you flunk a test, it doesn't mean you failed a one-time event. The F shows that you neglected the process leading up to the test.