Top 100 Improve The Quotes
#1. I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.
Miriam
#2. I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.
Margaret Chan
#3. Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
Tracy Kidder
#4. The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by
the object of its love: he who loveth mean and sordid things
doth thereby become base and vile; but a noble
and well placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit
into a conformity with the perfections which it loves.
Henry Scougal
#5. So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#6. Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
Carrie P. Meek
#7. Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you to become a better person and a greater leader.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#8. When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access it. But if there were not enough of it for everyone then people would result to violence in order to get it. Therefore we have to improve the conditions to have better human beings.
Shirin Ebadi
#9. Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.
Christine Quinn
#10. It Is Hard To Let Go Of The Past If You Have Not Learned From The Past. As Soon As You Learn And Let Go, You Improve The Present Today.
Spencer Johnson
#11. We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
Evan Bayh
#12. We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
Bill Walton
#13. Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.
Frank O'Connor
#14. I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.
Kent Beck
#15. Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives.
Robin Sharma
#16. If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer.
Stephen Porges
#17. Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.
Robin S. Sharma
#18. The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
Dan Webster
#19. Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.
Andrew Lansley
#20. I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
Isaiah Thomas
#21. A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
Temple Grandin
#22. I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.
Dutch Ruppersberger
#23. Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
Clarence Darrow
#24. Hospitals have missed the point that the best way to improve the patient experience is to build better engagement with their employees, who will then provide better service and health care to patients.
Paul Spiegelman
#25. Optimal design delivers information in ways that are useful, beautiful and improve the experience of all involved: audience, client and designer.
Maggie Macnab
#26. Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.
Patricia Velasquez
#27. ... certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence of office..
Robert A. Heinlein
#28. As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.
Nick Lampson
#29. Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man,
Manmohan Singh
#30. This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.
Daniel Schultz
#31. Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#32. Whatever is our 'contribution' to a situation..
Is all that we can 'influence' to alter/improve the situation..
In our control therefore, is this INFLUENCE!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#33. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
#34. Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.
Robert Farrar Capon
#35. I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.
Alexander Dubcek
#37. I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Martin Lawrence
#38. Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.
Joyce Meyer
#39. Making a company is a great way to improve the world while improving yourself.
Derek Sivers
#40. A person with love, enthusiasm, and passion can improve the whole nation.
Debasish Mridha
#41. I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.
Bud Selig
#42. Your job, as a leader, is to encourage the people you're responsible for to move physically, mentally, emotionally, or socially toward the objectives you have set to improve the shared work.
Harold Kurstedt
#43. I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.
Sarah Hall
#44. Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
Margaret Fuller
#46. In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
Zack Wamp
#47. Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.
Virginia Foxx
#48. There is no greater cause than making the world fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying on the family tradition by working with UNICEF to help improve the lives and well-being of children everywhere.
Tea Leoni
#49. I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
Ramez Naam
#50. The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science - and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges.
George H. W. Bush
#51. You could move.'
"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
Abigail Van Buren
#52. Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
Jane Goodall
#53. The beauty of the whole exercise is that as you strive to improve the lives of others, your own life will be elevated into its highest dimensions. This truth is based on an ancient paradigm for extraordinary living.
Robin S. Sharma
#54. We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
Lauryn Hill
#55. Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.
Kofi Annan
#56. Our goal should therefore be to become indifferent to other people's opinions of us. He adds that if we can succeed in doing this, we will improve the quality of our life.
William B. Irvine
#57. I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.
Lucas Papademos
#58. The kind of people we are is more important than what we can do to improve the world; indeed being the kind of people we should and can be is the best, and sometimes the only way to improve the world.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?
Sathya Sai Baba
#60. All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
George Bernard Shaw
#61. There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with ... nobody can ever improve the software.
Bill Gates
#62. The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).
Robert Hooke
#63. Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.
Kerry Greenwood
#64. If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.
Gwynne Shotwell
#65. Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
Natan Sharansky
#66. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.
Indra Nooyi
#67. Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Rick Pitino
#68. Tackle issues not people.
Am I trying to prove my point or improve the relationship?
Lysa TerKeurst
#69. I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.
Edward Snowden
#70. You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.
Ryuho Okawa
#71. Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.
David A. Morse
#72. Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.
Bertrand Piccard
#73. Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
Ed Markey
#74. It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve
Plato
#75. I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
Tom Allen
#76. The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
Richard Rogers
#77. I think in some cases busing did improve the situation in some areas; in some cases it didn't. We had busing in St. Louis, and it has been ended and we are using other methods of trying to better integrate the schools.
Dick Gephardt
#78. Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
Sarah Palin
#79. Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
Northrop Frye
#80. The point of learning about history is so we can improve the future.
Susane Colasanti
#81. Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas ... and improve the roads.
Bill Maher
#82. The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.
Elliott Abrams
#83. Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.
Li Bingbing
#84. We do seminars, sometimes, for 7,000 people. These are people, predominantly women, who are seeking, who want to know more, who want to improve the quality of their lives, who want to find themselves.
Louise Hay
#85. If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to improve the lives of people around them by learning from the nature that gives us life, we have a chance.
Paul Hawken
#86. The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
Aga Khan IV
#87. By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
Shawn Achor
#88. Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#89. A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
Bill Gates
#90. With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
Stephen Hawking
#91. Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.
Steve Scott
#92. What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all artists are fighting. I want to hold the mirror up to society and help them see themselves more clearly. I also love just making people laugh.
Jinkx Monsoon
#93. What I find really works for me is dry body brushing; it helps improve the circulation and exfoliates your skin.
Miranda Kerr
#94. We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
Neal A. Maxwell
#95. Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
#96. E. B. White once wrote, I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#97. The purpose of risk management is to improve the future, not to explain the past.
Andrew Jaquith
#98. Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.
Zoltan Istvan
#99. Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business ... because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
Stefan Molyneux
#100. I have spent more than a decade trying to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth, and they've taught me countless lessons.
Howard Graham Buffett
