Quotes about Improvement

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

Purge. Prepare. Perfect.

You change yourself by changing something you do each day.

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

Who has a more fierce struggle than the person who strives to master himself? And this must be our occupation: to strive to master ourselves and daily to grow stronger and to advance from good to better. All

Two things especially lead to great improvement: the will to drag yourself from the things that will naturally harm you and the desire to pursue the good things that you need the most. You should also watch out for those things that irritate you in other people; when you see them in yourself, get rid of them. Turn everything to your advantage.

Two things specially avail unto improvement in holiness, namely firmness to withdraw ourselves from the sin to which by nature we are most inclined, and earnest zeal for that good in which we are most lacking.

What I think the average person wants is not a fight; they want to see something move forward in their own neighborhood.

We adhere to the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," while not really questioning whether "it" is "broke.