Improvement Quotes

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

Only one lease of life is granted us; and the inquiry with every one should be, How can I invest my powers so that they may yield the greatest profit? How can I do most for the glory of God and the benefit of my fellow men? For life is valuable only as it is used for the attainment of these ends.

Ellen G White

The philosophy behind much advertising Is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

William Feather

Improvement begins with I.

Arnold H Glasgow

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

I have found that trying to become more like Jesus yields far better results that trying to become a better me.

The desire to improve does not have to come from a place of self-loathing.

James Clear