Top 67 Pushing Myself Quotes
#1. I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.
Keith Barry
#2. I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
Pamela Stephenson
#3. I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do ... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.
Aly Raisman
#4. There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
Dan O'Brien
#5. My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.
Brandy Norwood
#6. I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.
Matthew Morrison
#7. What I have in me ... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive ... it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
Bette Midler
#8. Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road.
Ryan Shay
#9. I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah
#10. You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
T.I.
#12. I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.
Bryce Wilson
#13. I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.
Kristen Stewart
#14. There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire. But so far, I've continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.
Barbara Mandrell
#15. I blinked, pushing myself up into a sitting position. I felt less like a truck had run over me and then backed up to make sure the job was done properly. Now it felt as if the truck had hit me only once.
Alyxandra Harvey
#16. I'm never satisfied with my performance. I want to keep pushing myself. The great thing about being an actor is you're always learning. That's what excites me about the job and what continues to drive me.
Drew Fuller
#17. I just have to deal with it [injuries] if and when problems happen. It's obviously a concern and I've been very careful with my training, making sure I warm up and warm down before everything and not pushing myself too stupidly.
Greg James
#18. You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.
Marie Osmond
#19. I can never stop working hard. Each day I feel that I have to improve. Hardwork ... Determination ... I gotta keep pushing myself.
Michael Jordan
#20. You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so ... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.
Kenny Wormald
#21. I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.
Sarah Dessen
#22. What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.
JC Chasez
#23. I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.
Nancy Crow
#24. I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.
Jonathan Evison
#25. When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.
Dan Gable
#26. I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.
Felicity Jones
#27. You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.
Alexander Gustafsson
#28. I love doing action movies, I love pushing myself to the limit.
Kellan Lutz
#29. I always enjoyed working out and pushing myself physically and mentally as much as I possibly could.
Jon Fitch
#30. I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.
Dustin Clare
#31. I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.
Ian Thorpe
#32. Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
Peter Capaldi
#33. I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.
Selena Gomez
#34. I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.
Elisha Cuthbert
#35. I always challenged men, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they'll catch up.
Katie Uhlaender
#36. Although we often assume that feelings inspire actions, in fact, actions also inspire feelings. By pushing myself to act happier, I make myself feel happier.
Gretchen Rubin
#37. On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.
Calista Flockhart
#38. I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.
Jerzy Kosinski
#39. I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself ... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.
David Blaine
#40. When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.
Sissy Spacek
#41. I always expected to be working construction with my family, so every day I get to travel the world and have fun with my friends is a bonus. I really enjoy pushing myself and so does my wife.
Travis Pastrana
#42. I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.
Shawn Levy
#43. I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.
Spencer Grammer
#44. I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.
Ryan Sheckler
#45. Pushing all doubts and fears aside, I let myself feel. Just this once I wanted to take this for myself. If it is all I would ever have of him, then I wanted to make it something to remember.
Jordan Silver
#46. I was down on myself so much for what I saw as not pushing back sometimes that it had never occurred to me that took its own strength.
Richelle Mead
#47. How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?
Eileen Cook
#48. Get up," I tell myself, "You go and make your dreams a reality. There's no use staying home and whine every time life beats you down. There's a meadow in the deep forest; you just have to keep pushing through.
Millicent Ashby
#49. I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.
Cecelia Ahern
#50. I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.
Joel Stein
#51. It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life ... I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.
Francesca Annis
#52. I doubt I'll ever retire, but if I do, I see myself as the little old Parisian lady pushing her trolley from the supermarket to her apartment. Everyone needs a pipe dream.
Catherine Martin
#53. I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
Taraji P. Henson
#54. I'm a real 'go, go' person ... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
Shelley Long
#55. I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman,
Henry Cavill
#56. Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself
James Patterson
#57. I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
Travis Barker
#58. There are so many Al Anon fans and friends who have shown me wonderful love, prayers, thoughts! I thank everyone for this. It feels great to have wonderful people behind you, pushing and praying for you. Mostly, I don't want to let myself down, but they encourage me not to let them down.
Steven Adler
#59. The first time I saw a narcissus pushing through ice and thriving, I thought it was perfect and wanted that kind of determination for myself.
Paula McLain
#60. I learned to walk; since then I have let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.
Jane McGonigal
#62. I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.
Rabindranath Tagore
#63. I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system..
Mariah Carey
#64. No matter what you do, don't stop doing it. Don't let anyone push you down, just keep pushing until you find what you sought out.
Myself
#65. When I stop trying to create a life for myself, I find the life God creates for me. When I cease trying to make a name for myself - competing, grasping, pushing my way to the top - His name emerges through the actions of my life.
Rachel Olsen
#66. I adhere to the law of chastity because I don't believe in pushing women. That's what it means to be a man. I don't hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don't indulge in either. We don't need to.
Courtney Milan
#67. I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.
Vanessa L. Williams
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