Improvement Quotes - Page 10

America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.