Quotes about Improvement

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

All I had was to improve on their strategy [...] anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

It is instructive to compare the Meditations with another famous book, the Imitation of Christ. There is the same ideal of self-control in both. It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.