Quotes About Outdoing Yourself

#1. With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.

Kenneth Waltz

#2. I leaned my head on the back of the wooden chair and looked over at his handsome profile, all alight in the glow of the fire. For a second he looked like a God, maybe of the Sun, all golden and beautiful, his own magnificence outdoing that of the dancing flames.

Mia Sheridan

#3. I also realized that there's a difference between soul mates and true love."
"Is one type of love better than the other? I don't know, but I'm lucky enough to have found them both.

Lisa De Jong

#4. Let us go on outdoing ourselves; a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we ask of ourselves or more than what we know we can do.

Huey Newton

#5. They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice of words.

Melina Marchetta

#6. Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.

Wallace D. Wattles

#7. When all is said and done, I personally think that success is when you're consistently improving and outdoing yourself.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#8. Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

Jon Stewart

#9. The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

Gideon Welles

#10. I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.

Jessica Chastain

#11. But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Carl Sagan

#12. I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

Brody Armstrong

#13. The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

Greg Egan

#14. She's doing this on purpose. And for a split second I'm lost in her sensual, mesmerizing stare. She doesn't back down. I'm hard. Instantly. I want her. Here. Now.

E.L. James

#15. Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches? ... Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible whole ... May the new century bring with it ingenious champions and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples.

David Hilbert

#16. We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs.

The Gaslight Anthem , Orphans

#17. There's no outdoing The Beatles.

Brian Wilson

#18. One genius is about all a house will hold.

Isabel Paterson

#19. Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

Jerry Yang

#20. He decided that whatever he'd think of England, at least it was interesting. It felt as if it had seen what's different and weird elsewhere, and had come together as a country with the sole purpose of outdoing that.

Silver Saaremaeel

#21. That's done it! Now I've rung the front-door bell!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. All truths wait in all things,

Walt Whitman

#23. I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Kendrick Lamar

#24. The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

Roy Blunt

#25. Gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

James Randi

#26. He nodded. I no longer focus on meeting their expectations because I am too focused on outdoing hers.

Sarah MacLean