Improve
To disprove or make void; to refute.
To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.
To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.
To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.
To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.
To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.
To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.
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Improve Quotations
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
Wayne Dyer
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma Bombeck
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
Improve Translations
improve in Dutch is verbeteren, veredelen
improve in German is verbessern, aufbessern
improve in Italian is perfezionare, migliorare
improve in Latin is amplio
improve in Norwegian is forbedre
improve in Portuguese is melhore
improve in Spanish is mejorar, corregir
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