Quotes on Improvement

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does

See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can _x000D_ know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for _x000D_ mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do _x000D_ that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in _x000D_ a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices, _x000D_ you cannot gain its value.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.