Quotes About Improvement

As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.

The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

Trying is not enough. We have to go out and set goals and measure definitive progress so that four years from now we are in a better position to add new voters to our base of support.

My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

Its always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out.

I know perfection is one thing I will never achieve, but I will always make it my goal because this means I am always giving my all and working to improve

Have you seen my Kung fu lately? Cause it has gotten totally awsome!

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

I was doing some decorating, so I got out my step-ladder. I don't get on with my real ladder.

The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Can love really change someone? After meeting you I believe that it really can. The happiness, love and fun that we have has made me such a better person now and I feel like I can keep getting better.

Define failure as feedback.

The desire to commit suicide, however, has at its base a belief that life cannot or will not improve. Although that may be the case in some instances, it is not true in all instances. Death, however, rules out hope in all instances. We do not have any data indicating that people who are dead lead better lives.

People don't get better without follow-up. So let's get better at following up with our people.

Peter Drucker famously said, "Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

Getting better is its own reward. If we do that, we can never feel cheated.

where there is no system for honoring the avoidance of a bad decision or the cessation of bad behavior. Our performance reviews are solely based on what we've done, what numbers we've delivered, what increases we have posted against last year's results. Even the seemingly minor personal goals are couched in terms of actions we've initiated, not behavior we have stopped. We get credit for being punctual, not for stopping our lateness.