Improvement Quotes

“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”

“Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”

“Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker”

“They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad”

“No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!”

“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”

“To improve is to change.”

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

“Things do not get better by being left alone.”

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

“Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”

“It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.”

“Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.”

“Success is never final.”

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

“Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.”

“If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.”

“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”

“I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.”

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

“Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.”

“When you hit a plateau you have to be willing to get a little bit worse before you get massively better.”