Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, May 18th, 2024
Eve of Pentacost
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!

Pastoral Resources

Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Improvement'

Choose a letter: 
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
Rutherford B. Hayes, American President (1822-1893)
Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.
Marilu Henner, American Actress (1952-  )
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist (1883-1964)
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Eric Hoffer, American Writer (1902-1983)
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Kurt Huber, German Celebrity (1893-1943)
At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.
Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist (1777-1855)
What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
William Hurt, American Actor (1950-  )
A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.
Mary C. Jones, -
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
Mary C. Jones, -
There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.
Jason Kidd, American Athlete (1973-  )
Practice without improvement is meaningless.
Chuck Knox, -
I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.
Sylvia Kristel, Dutch Actress (1952-  )
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
Sanjay Kumar, Businessman
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
Christopher Lasch, American Historian (1932-1994)
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
Christopher Lasch, American Historian (1932-1994)
For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
Geddy Lee, Canadian Musician (1953-  )
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
Friedrich List, German Economist (1789-1846)
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer (1811-1886)
 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile