Quotes About Striving For Greatness

#1. I'm striving for greatness, reaching for the stars, and trying to avoid being burnt by the sun!

Joan L. Sample

#2. In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

Keith Ferrazzi

#3. Hold it down until you come up

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#4. What are they called? Sprackles, shakums, edible sequins, glossy sugar deedeebobs, I don't know. Instead of sprinkling them on a cookie, I sprinkle them on Angel de la Guarda.

David Quammen

#5. I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

Sophie Hannah

#6. And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens' ecstatic thoughts and dreams.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. If you fall still stand your ground and strive for that new start.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#9. At least I had that, one guy understood me.

Yoko Ono

#10. Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.

Francis Crick

#11. If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity.

Benjamin Wood

#12. How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

Groucho Marx

#13. Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

Dominick Cruz

#14. There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life ...

Rex Harrison