Improvement Quotes - Page 4

Vanity prevents improvement

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

Done is better than perfect.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.

Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

Talent comes from experience and failure