Improvement proverbs

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◆ Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

- Tony DeLiso99

◆ Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.

- Jaachynma N.E. Agu99

◆ Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

- Bob Dylan99

◆ Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.

- Jaachynma N.E. Agu99

◆ Never put off writing until you are better at it.

- Gary Henderson99

◆ But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind.

- Immanuel Kant99

◆ The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

- Bill Bowerman99

◆ The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

- Criss Jami99

◆ I used to be a bumper sticker kind of writer. Now I'm more developed, and my writing often takes up whole bumpers. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

- Lindsay Buckingham99

◆ 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 McCullers99

◆ We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

- H.G. Wells99

◆ No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

- Tiger Woods99

◆ The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

- Craig Ferguson99