Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are fingerposts on the road to achievement.
Improve Quotes
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
Unluckily for the man of tender mind, he is quite incapable of any such easy dismissal of the great plagues and conundrums of existence. It is of the essence of his character that he is too sensitive and sentimental to put them ruthlessly out of his mind: he cannot view even the crunching of a […]
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
Improvement and the world will expire together; And till that period arrives, we may plunder the mine, but can never exhaust it! That ‘We have found out everything,’ has been the motto of every age. Let our ideas travel a little into antiquity, and we shall find larger portions of it than now; and so […]
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head – and hands.
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
