Quotes About Improvement

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.