Quotes About The Betterment

#1. The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

Richard Cornuelle

#2. One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.

Ogwo David Emenike

#3. If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.

Talib Kweli

#4. The invitation to something better is not arriving from any source outside of yourself - ever.

Bryant McGill

#5. If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

Ramez Naam

#6. The 4-H Clubs believe in and practice the full development of our talents. They believe in physical and mental health. Beyond this there is an underlying creed of honesty of purpose. These objectives and practical projects make the 4-H Clubs a tremendous influence for the betterment of our country.

Fred M. Vinson

#7. The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.

Henry Giroux

#8. Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

Guadalupe Neri

#9. One positive person affects the whole universe. If you improve yourself as a human being then you will contribute for the betterment of the whole planet.

Hina Hashmi

#10. If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.

Oli Anderson

#11. Greatness of life depends not on what we do for ourselves, but on what we do for the betterment of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Your life has tremendous value to you. It becomes a precious diamond for humanity to enjoy when you donate it for the betterment of others.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Anyone can criticize. It is important to be a person who can appreciate and show the way to betterment.

Debasish Mridha

#14. True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

Socrates

#15. Capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Dinesh D'Souza

#16. I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

Big Boi

#17. Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

#18. The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while the other lives in self-loathing misery.

Joel T. McGrath

#19. Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

Saul Bellow

#20. Young people cannot contribute to the betterment of society if they are
constantly focusing on how to improve their own position.

Eraldo Banovac

#21. Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want
I want
I want
was all that she could think about
but just what this real want was she did no know.

Carson McCullers

#22. When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

Gerry Spence

#23. The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

Herbert Hoover

#24. Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.

Dagobert D. Runes

#25. If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

Andrew Saul

#26. At 18, if I am mature enough to vote a leader for the nation's betterment, why am I ineligible to choose what I shall study for my own betterment?

Anand J.

#27. It's like saying to a drowning man: What a pity, what a pity! If you had only let me teach you how to swim! Everybody wants to right the world, nobody wants help his neighbor. They want to make a man of you without taking your body into consideration. It's all cockeyed.

Henry Miller

#28. The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#29. The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

Albert Einstein

#30. Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.

Alan Dean Foster

#31. He embraced political power not as an end in itself, but for what it could accomplish for the betterment of society;

Mungo MacCallum

#32. Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#33. miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night. Life was hard. The townsfolk were barely literate and desperately poor and without much hope for economic betterment until word reached Roseto at the end

Malcolm Gladwell

#34. Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Albert Einstein

#35. True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

Jim George

#36. Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Johan Huizinga

#37. The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.

David Packard

#38. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

Leo Rosten

#39. The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind.

Leslie Groves

#40. We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.

Dave Matthews

#41. Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

Julien Benda

#42. The world tells us that our pasts define us, trapping us, isolating us and giving us little hope for change or betterment. I say our pasts design us for what's to come and gives us a platform to be heroes in the lives of others.

Shawn M Mcnamara

#43. To succeed in this day and age, all you need to be ahead of the pack is to be informed, and turn the information into transformation for your betterment and that of others.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#44. For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

James McAvoy

#45. We are perfect and it's just for us to acknowledge this aspect of us, be conscious in our thoughts and use mind power to bring forth the betterment of the nation.

Sizzla

#46. Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment

Christopher Hayes

#47. What I want is the general betterment of pets. No-kill is a part of that. I'd like to see that policy enacted at all SPCA-type organizations around the country.

David Duffield

#48. The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

Baha'u'llah

#49. It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#50. To feel the pure joy of life, donate yourself for the betterment of others.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.
[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]

Paul McHugh

#52. Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

Francis Bacon

#53. When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of human betterment, represents the kind of happiness that money really can buy.

Henry Townley Heald

#54. Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Maria Montessori

#55. You're right. The details of your hopeless quest to sacrifice your individuality on the altar of Chromatic betterment is about as exciting to me as pulling clodworms out of the juniors.

Jasper Fforde

#56. The highest happiness on earth exists in the donation of self for the betterment of others.

Debasish Mridha

#57. When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world.

Kevin Eikenberry

#58. It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

James Larkin

#59. If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers.

Ogwo David Emenike

#60. It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

Maria Montessori

#61. My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.

Albert Einstein

#62. It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Leo Buscaglia

#63. That's the trouble with people like you," said Wonse, getting up. "You're always against anything attempted for the betterment of mankind, but you never have any proper plans of your own.

Terry Pratchett

#64. We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

Meryl Streep

#65. Some guys milk injuries and miss a couple games at the beginning. Other guys, they tough it out for the betterment of the team.

Ryan Kalil

#66. And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind?

E.L. Doctorow

#67. Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#68. Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#69. Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world

Baha'u'llah

#70. Everything that you've been thru, God's going to use it for the betterment of your future!

Dale C. Bronner

#71. Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.

Erica Goros

#72. Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.

Bryant McGill

#73. We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for ...

Ben Chifley

#74. Science is but a perversion of itself
unless it has as its ultimate goal
the betterment of humanity.

Nikola Tesla

#75. A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Maya Angelou

#76. Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

Rebecca West

#77. Our wisdom grows not by staking out claims and defending them against all comers, but by sharing information freely, so that we may work together for the betterment of all.

Marie Brennan

#78. All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously.
In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.

Gian Kumar

#79. The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#80. That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Henry Ward Beecher

#81. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

#82. It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

Ruth St. Denis

#83. Majority of folks out there are trying to make a difference. Don't just make a difference; become the difference!

Ogwo David Emenike

#84. The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.

Ben Shapiro

#85. If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

Frederick Lenz

#86. Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.

Plato

#87. The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.

Jill Lepore

#88. No matter what happened, God's plans continued to work for the betterment of His creation.

Sarah Price

#89. The ultimate source of abundance is to give love for the betterment of others.

Debasish Mridha

#90. I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

L. Frank Baum

#91. If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.

Maria Montessori

#92. Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

Karim Rashid

#93. The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

Kangana Ranaut

#94. Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

Julius Nyerere

#95. Intelligence is a gift, not a right. It must be wielded not as a weapon but as a tool for the betterment of others.

Veronica Roth

#96. Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

Arvind Kejriwal

#97. The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

Morgan Freeman

#98. I know if I react, and I want to get mad, and emotions come to the surface, I think quickly of my friends who have died and how they overcame their struggle and used their cancer and their lives for the betterment of mankind, and it sets me back in place.

Justin Baldoni

#99. It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything.

Mark Starr

#100. Everyone can find what is wrong with a society but only a few can lead toward the betterment of a community.

Debasish Mridha