Desire To Improve Quotes

#1. I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

Elsie De Wolfe

#2. Despite Tub's eye wound he never so much as stumbled, and I felt for the first time that we knew and understood each other; I sensed in him a desire to improve himself, which perhaps was whimsy or wishful thinking on my part, but such are the musings of the traveling man. The

Patrick DeWitt

#3. Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Bruce Lee

#4. Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

Wayne Dyer

#5. A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

Nathaniel Branden

#6. I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.

E.B. White

#7. There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Matt Smith

#8. The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.

Monty Roberts

#9. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E.B. White

#10. I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

Bill De Blasio

#11. Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Herbert Hoover

#12. At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

Benjamin Cheever

#13. To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

Ravi Zacharias

#14. Inside the big world that you cannot control, you have the small world of you that you can control. In that small world, if you look, you can see whether to go this way toward good, or the other way toward bad.

Roland Merullo

#15. Mistakes are the doors of discovery", by James Joyce. A similar one: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" by Ernest Hemingway. Both remind me that our biggest mistakes are the experiences we learn the most from. Hope to improve gives everyone the desire to live the next day, doesn't it?

Robert Pattinson

#16. I feel this urge to demand you get up and get your shit together. To tell you that whatever grief I see floating in your eyes is not your fault. That we all make mistakes, but we all have to move forward and survive.

Ryanne Hawk

#17. Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve.

Bradford Winters

#18. I can be surrounded by a sea of people and still feel all alone ...

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

#19. We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

Jose Saramago

#20. Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it is; it arouses the desire to change and improve things. The attitude of adventure is the flame that lights the fuse to explode new ideas.

Wilferd Peterson

#21. It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

Antoine Lavoisier

#22. You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

John Ruskin

#23. Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to improve the quality of our lives. However, nothing improves by accident, it requires conscious attention. When you are being bombarded by negatives, improvement, growth and success are easy to forget.

Bob Proctor

#25. They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

Chang-rae Lee

#26. I think anyone smiling and happy is beautiful.

Sara Evans

#27. Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

Ali Farahnakian