top of page
Improvement Quotes


"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."


"Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection."


"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."


"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."


"I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies."


"I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement."


"What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here."


"You may be good, but who cannot be better?"


"For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at."


"Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement."


"And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does."


"Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area."


"We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility."


"For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement."


"New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement."


"Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot."


"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."


"The only excuse for not improving yourself is not taking the time and effort to."


"You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself."


"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."


"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs."


"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."


"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."


"When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it."


"Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941."


"The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on."


"One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year."


"A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits."



"When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained."


"Success can't be achieved without personal development and constantly improving yourself."


"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."


"If you want to do something better, do it with profound love."


"The perfect is the enemy of the good."


"To become a better you, don't dream of becoming a superior over other people. Dream of becoming a superior over your previous achievements."


"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."


"You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis and see how far you have gone and what you still need to work on."
bottom of page
