Quotes about Improvement

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

Alert people everywhere are finding that by trying prayer power they feel better, work better, do better, sleep better, are better.

Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.

Each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment

When you know better...You do better.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement. To become a more effective leader of people, apply…     Principle 6 Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

The average person," said Samuel Vauclain, then president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, "can be led readily if you have his or her respect and if you show that you respect that person for some kind of ability." In short, if you want to improve a person in a certain aspect, act as though that particular trait were already one of his or her outstanding characteristics.