Striving for Improvement Quotes

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

The goal is progress, not perfection!

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

I want to continue to take steps forward.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride in ignorance, or somehow use "elite" to mean "person who has taken the time to know" and then are eager to dismiss, say, striving, or the notion that improving one's self out of difficult conditions is a noble thing.

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.