Improve Quotes

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

To compare is not to improve.

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

To change and to improve are two different things.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate worse than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top appear inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

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.

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.