Quotes about Improvement

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.

They both believed that the enemy of better is best, and the tomb of the extra-ordinary is the ordinary.

Thus it won't do to say there is nothing that can be done to improve matters before Jesus returns. Yes, the second coming will accomplish all sorts of things of which at present we can only dream. I do not expect to see the wolf lying down with the lamb within the present state of creation, and if I were to meet a lion in the street (fortunately, an unlikely event in eastern Scotland), I would not rely on its having read Isaiah 11 and knowing that it should now be vegetarian.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

We lose interest and give up when we have no vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday life with its trivial tasks.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.

I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.