Desire for Improvement Quotes

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

Guys all want something beyond what they're being given - in every facet of life.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is [as] admirable and sound as it is dangerous – from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."

Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.

The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.