Things Are Getting Better Quotes:

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

source: Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiration And Motivation

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marketing And Sales, Infinite Hope

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Smart, Sometimes All You Need, Inner Peace And Happiness

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

- William Faulkner

source: "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Improving Yourself, Inspirational Track

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Sailboat, Change Growth

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

topic: Inspiring, Stay Strong, Inspiration, Inspirational Stay Strong, Enjoy Your Life

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspiration, Way, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Creating Worlds

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

- Rumi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Health, Inspirational Sufi, Sufi Love

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

- Steve Jobs

source: "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Time, Money, Managing People, Innovation And Business

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Track, Innovation And Business, Wrong Job

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

I'm glad things are getting better, but I'm going to push and be pissed off until they're perfect. That will probably never happen, but I feel some weird duty nonetheless. Even though I can get married in Seattle, I could go to another country and get the death penalty just for being myself-I'm not making music just for fiancés in Seattle.

- Perfume Genius

source: "Perfume Genius" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2014.

topic: Country, Perfect, Get Better, Things Are Getting Better

I'm not expecting a big sell-off but I do think that if we don't have a move toward economic growth and policies that will promote economic growth and get us out of this 2 percent world - we really need to see 4 percent, 5 percent - to see jobs created, and if we don't see that longer-term, yeah the market will sell-off...[but] I do think things are getting better. It's just been very slow.

- Maria Bartiromo

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Jobs, Moving, Thinking, Things Are Getting Better

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

- Dinesh D'Souza

source: Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

topic: Ideas, Get Better, Progress, Things Are Getting Better

If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

- Clayton Christensen

source: Source: www.strategy-business.com

topic: Fall, Believe, Data, Things Are Getting Better

[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union.

- Matt Fraction

topic: Book, Writing, Thinking, Things Are Getting Better

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

- Daniel Kahneman

topic: Past, Get Better, Progress, Volatility, Things Are Getting Better

I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.

- Bjorn Lomborg

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Get Better, Trying, Messages, Things Are Getting Better