Improve Quotes

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are fingerposts on the road to achievement.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

Unluckily for the man of tender mind, he is quite incapable of any such easy dismissal of the great plagues and conundrums of existence. It is of the essence of his character that he is too sensitive and sentimental to put them ruthlessly out of his mind: he cannot view even the crunching of a […]

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.