Quotes about Betterment
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
- Charles Dickens
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
- Leo Buscaglia
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
- Henry Ward Beecher
while to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. And such I think I have become.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.
- Henry Ford
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
- David O. McKay
St. Augustine adds that God has taught us to praise Him, in the Psalms, not in order that He may get something out of this praise, but in order that we may be made better by it. Praising God in the words of the Psalms, we can come to know Him better. Knowing Him better we love Him better, loving Him better we find our happiness in Him.
- Thomas Merton
St. Augustine adds that God has taught us to praise Him, in the Psalms, not in order that He may get something out of this praise, but in order that we may be made better by it.
- Thomas Merton
But if life could be worse, didn't that mean it could also be better?'" As it was, he settled for odd jobs, harvesting occasional crops, living a life that was destined never to rise above the menial. He was proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose.
- Camron Wright