Increase Quotes

Poverty consists not in the decrease in one's possessions, but in the increase in one's greed. (Plato)
Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it! View quote
Yuri Gagarin
The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death. View quote
Julian Simon
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. View quote
Václav Havel
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. View quote
Coretta Scott King
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. View quote
Frances Burney
Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that. View quote
Indra Nooyi
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. (Woodrow Wilson)
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. View quote
William Howard Taft
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. View quote
Denis Diderot
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. View quote
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. View quote
Edward Moore
In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. View quote
Jean Arp
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. View quote
Bruce Lee
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature. (John von Neumann)
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold. View quote
William Cowper
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt