Top Improvement Quotes
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.
Henry Charles Carey
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
Frederick Sanger
Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.
Kenneth H. Cooper
William Hurt 
Marilu Henner 
Isambard K. Brunel 
Ezra Cornell 
Pierre de Coubertin 
Rick Wagoner 
Sonny Perdue 
Edsger Dijkstra 
David O. Selznick 
Benjamin Disraeli 
Kim Collins All Improvement Quotes
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. 
52% of people like this quote
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
52% of people like this quote
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke
52% of people like this quote
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adler
52% of people like this quote
To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
Fred Perry
52% of people like this quote
What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
William Hurt
52% of people like this quote
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill
52% of people like this quote
I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
John Byrne
51% of people like this quote
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
Pierre de Coubertin
51% of people like this quote
Popular Improvement Authors
Benjamin FranklinThomas JeffersonWinston ChurchillBenjamin DisraeliEric HofferGeorge OrwellBo BennettHenri Frederic AmielAnthony TrollopeArthur EricksonJames Cash PenneyJohn LockePaul WellstoneLawrence WelkMarilu Henner
Geddy LeeWilliam HurtSanjay KumarTemple GrandinFred ThompsonAni DiFrancoGinny B. WaitePierre de CoubertinJim EvansLester B. PearsonThom GunnRutherford B. HayesFranz LisztMitch McConnellDonald Norman
More »