In bestowing charity, the main consideration should be to help those who help themselves. It provides part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give to those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist but rarely or never to do all.
Improve Quotes
One can begin so many things with a new person!—even begin to be a better man.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
My cooking isn’t creatively cutting edge. They’re more from “remember” flavors. So, I tend to take a recipe for boeuf bourguignon and make it simpler. I’m a big believer in making a better potato chip. That’s my goal. Take something that everybody just loves, but make it better than anybody else.
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head – and hands.
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
