Improvement Quotes - Page 23

• I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .

  Kevin Rudd

  Ambition, Differences, Long

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• A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

  William Penn

  Art, Work, Grateful

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.127

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• I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.

  George Washington

  Garden, Careers, Mind

  George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters (1847). “Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, President of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P.: With Statistical Tables and Remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and Other Gentlemen, on the Economy and Management of Farms in the United States”, p.24

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• I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.

  Duncan Keith

  Hockey, Mirrors, Nhl

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• Beer is an improvement on water itself.

  Grant Johnson

  Funny, Beer, Water

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• Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

  Elizabeth Carter

  Real, Pride, Vices

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• What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.

  John Updike

  Sports, Lying, Golf

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• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Men, Sorrow

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• Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

  Philip James Bailey

  Thinking, Self, Space

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.96

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• The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, People, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.41

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• We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Two, Innovation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.218

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• When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

  John Wooden

  Change, Next Day, One Day At A Time

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• I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Exercise

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?

  Zig Ziglar

  Mind, Self Improvement, Doe

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• Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Progress

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• Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.163

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• Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Self Improvement, Care, Merit

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• We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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• You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Helping Others, People

  John Ruskin (2015). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• God has entrusted me with myself.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Self Improvement

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• Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Powerful, Self Improvement

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 09, 2015

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  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

  Joseph Campbell

  Success, Jobs, Character

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• Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Science, Ideas

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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• What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Bridges, Rivers

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.332, Penguin

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• Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Educational, School, Thinking

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