Improvement quotes

“You just have to be willing to take the 'failures' and learn from them, make the best of them.”
Tim Story

“We have a choice. We can tear each other apart or we can come together and build a better world. It’s not too late.”
Daniel Dae Kim - Benja

“Civilization has a natural resistance to improving itself.”
Gene Kelly - Jerry Mulligan

“You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“Just as your iPhone is a lot better now than it was four years ago, obviously the same is true for computer animation.”
Chris Renaud

“I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.”
Don Johnson

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Jeremy Piven - Dean Kansky

“What man is a man who does not make the world better?”
Orlando Bloom - Balian de Ibelin

“- Melvin Udall: You make me want to be a better man.
- Carol Connelly: ...That's maybe the best compliment of my life.
- Melvin Udall: Well, maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.”
Jack Nicholson - Melvin Udall
Helen Hunt - Carol Connelly

“Just because something works doesn't mean that it cannot be improved.”
Letitia Wright - Shuri

“There is more that I can learn and there are many people who are as good as, or better at, what I do than I am.”
Michael Cristofer

“Being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things.”
Sandra Oh - Dr. Cristina Yang

“When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change.”
Zach Tyler - Aang

“I think each person who is in the limelight has an obligation to make things better for the last, the lost, the least, the left-out and the looked-over.”
T. Larry Kirkland Sr. - Self

“They never want to improve. They think themselves perfect. Their vanity is greater than their misery.”

Burt Lancaster - Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

“Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.”
Harry Anderson

“To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.”
Peter Falk

“I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.”
Barkhad Abdi

“Failure is a character builder.”
Cary Elwes - Thomas Ince

“I never realized that the study of nature could advance the science of naval warfare.”
Russell Crowe - Capt. Jack Aubrey

“I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.”
David Niven

“I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.”
Burt Lancaster

“You can't have progress without pain. No pain, no gain.”
Maurice LaMarche - Big Bob Pataki

“You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.”
Jacqueline Bisset

“- Spencer's Father: Nice job on my kid. I expected to see some improvement.
- Maggie Burroughs: He isn't a Toyota.”

Michael McNab - Spencer's Father
Lisa Zane - Maggie Burroughs