Quotes about Improvement

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

Think something isn't good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.

Anything is better than stagnation.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power: that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must, in proportion to its numbers, be the most powerful nation on earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purpose of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.