Quotes About Pushing Yourself To Be The Best

#1. Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Simon Sinek

#2. Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you've seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#3. Look, if you're going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you're going to fall. If you're not falling, you're not pushing. Falling is part of getting better.

Darren Hardy

#4. And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as they bloomed until she surrendered to relaxation with a soft exclamation of surprise

Mary Balogh

#5. It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

Henry Rollins

#6. Echo already felt like a heavy drug. The kind I avoided on purpose - crack, heroin, meth. The ones that screwed with your mind, crept into your blood and left you powerless, helpless.

Katie McGarry

#7. Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow
for the better
working to deserve each other, was the key.

Penny Reid

#8. What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.

Alyson Noel

#9. You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Rene Descartes

#10. When we spend our lives (knowingly or unknowingly) pushing away vulnerability, we can't hold space open for the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure of joy.

Brene Brown

#11. I have people calling me cute. Like I'm a fucking puppy!" she sneered at me, pushing me aside in order to continue on her way. "I am Melody Giovanni Callahan, cute is not the adjective used to describe me!

J.J. McAvoy

#12. When we kissed, that flame sparked between us, pushing away the darkness that threatened to swallow me. It was a feeling I wasn't ready to lose.

Trish Marie Dawson

#13. I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

Bartlett Sher

#14. Her arms crept around his neck and she sunk her hand into the wavy hair at his nape. He was stealing her senses. She needed to stop this ... in just a minute. He was such a good kisser, just the right amount of pressure and passion. She sighed again and moved her hands to his shoulders pushing back.

Tamara Hoffa

#15. I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

Richard Carmona

#16. I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

Abbey Clancy

#17. Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

Takeru Kobayashi

#18. If you're unwilling to leave someplace you've outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don't stand still, leap forward.

Ronda Rousey

#19. 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

#20. N had been pushing for (in only a half-joking way)

J.A. Huss

#21. Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth's biological resources. In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it is perched.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#22. Gods it's well done, she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and interaction tying around her. She felt things all coming together, pushing her into this place, at this time, having done this thing.

China Mieville

#23. There is one gift above all others that makes man unique among the animals, and it is the gift displayed everywhere here: his immense pleasure in exercising and pushing forward his own skill.

Jacob Bronowski

#24. Don't forget that in pushing policemen into duck ponds the follow through is everything.

P.G. Wodehouse

#25. Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

Barry Ritholtz

#26. I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.

Mischa Barton

#27. It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.

Katherine Reutter

#28. Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

Anne Waldman

#29. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.

Michael Meade

#30. If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

Gary Panter

#31. I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

Jonathan Evison

#32. I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

Vanessa L. Williams

#33. I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

Bill Budge

#34. History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

Tansy Rayner Roberts