Improvement Quotes

“Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Without active listening, you can not adequately contribute to civil discourse.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: The Art of Civil Discourse: A Guide to Maintaining Courteous Communication in an Increasingly Divided World

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.”
― Lindsay Buckingham

“Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.”
― Agu Jaachynma N.E.

“Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.”
― Edward De Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations or circumstances say.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.”
― Tiger Woods

“An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.”
― Agu Jaachynma N.E.

“With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.”
― Alexandra Ripley, Scarlett

“We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.”
― Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

“The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have, is to so live, and so improve himself in heart and brain, as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. That is my idea. There is no success in life without love and marriage. You had better be the emperor of one loving and tender heart, and she the empress of yours, than to be king of the world. The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar, his life has been a success.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

“Patience is a virtue not a vice.”
― Agu Jaachynma N.E.

“Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.”
― Émile Coué

“Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Every fish you throw back into the ocean is a triumph of the idea that human beings can be better. I do my best, every day, to throw at least one fish back into the ocean. I hope that you will join me.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“I write fiction"
"What’s fiction?"
"Fiction is an improvement on life.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Learn from the past but use the present to create the future.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”
― Roy Bennett

“The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults?...Or shall it rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union”
― Thomas Jefferson

“If everyday you keep getting better, you end up being the best.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words