#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.”

“Good reasons must of force give place to better.”

“Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.”

“Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives.”

“Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture.”

“Repetition is the mother of skill.”

“The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.”

“There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.”

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

“We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.”

“If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities?”

“See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement”

“The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.”

“Quality questions create a quality life.”

“The quality of my life was the quality of my questions.”

“Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life”

“Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.”

“I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?”

“Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.”

“Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.”

“Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.”

“You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.”

“I love trying to beat what I've done so far.”

“I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.”

“To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.”

“I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.”