Improvement Quotes

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancement - improvement in conditions - is the order of things in a society of equals.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

There is always a better way.

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.