Improvement Quotes

Hardships exist to make me stronger, helping me grow and improve, not to leave me hopeless or discouraged.

We know it because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life.

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

Most whites in America in 1967, including many persons of goodwill, proceed from a premise that equality is a loose expression for improvement. White America is not even psychologically organized to close the gap-essentially it seeks only to make it less painful and less obvious but in most respects to retain it.

The apparent apathy of the Negro ministers presented a special problem. A faithful few had always shown a deep concern for social problems, but too many had remained aloof from the area of social responsibility. Much of this indifference, it is true, stemmed from a sincere feeling that ministers were not supposed to get mixed up in such earthly, temporal matters as social and economic improvement; they were to "preach the gospel" and keep men's minds centered on "the heavenly." But however sincere, this view of religion, I felt, was too confined.

There is nothing wrong in change, if it is in the right direction. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

There is always a better way.

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

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.