Quotes About Striving To Be Your Best

#1. Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

Brene Brown

#2. It's about being the very best you can be. Nothing else matters as long as you're working and striving to be your best. Always compete. It's truly that simple. Find the way to do your best. Compete in everything you do.

Pete Carroll

#3. I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

Brad Furman

#4. I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

Alice Cooper

#5. I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Arthur Ashe

#6. I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.

Philip Gulley

#7. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

Ismail Haniyeh

#9. Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

Lucy Larcom

#10. If you are not thinking universally and intellectually, you can only remain flawlessly stagnant.

Lionel Suggs

#11. If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

Heber J. Grant

#12. One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

Joseph Prince

#13. I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You're striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I'm available.

Doug Harvey

#14. Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Andrew Shue

#15. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Douglas Adams

#16. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

David Bly

#17. Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family
in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.

Camille Paglia

#18. Make your characters interested in something. Striving for something. In need of something. Good at something. This will make them likeable and interesting.

James Franco

#19. Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

Rush Limbaugh

#20. Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

Chad Harbach

#21. Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.

Lauren Rowe

#22. Striving to 'be the best' is overrated & not smart. Grow to become only 1% better than your top competitor in your chosen field(s) of expertise.

Gary Patton

#23. In searching for ways to bridge the generation gap, there is no doubt that we, as parents, will have to practice what we preach, by striving more to bring our conduct into line with our code of beliefs.

Billy Graham

#24. Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

Gordon W. Allport

#25. When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.

Alan Cohen

#26. And with that, the future I had imagined, the one just about to be realized, the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated.

Paul Kalanithi

#27. 6One hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind.

Anonymous

#28. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#29. Hold it down until you come up

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#30. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

James Bryce

#31. All heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.

Martin Luther

#32. A golfer has to learn to enjoy the process of striving to improve. That process, not the end result, enriches life.

Bob Rotella

#33. He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

Jack London

#34. The sun, like a boil on the bright blue ass of day, rolled gradually forward and spread its legs wide to reveal the pubic thatch of night, a hairy darkness in which stars crawled like lice, and the moon crabbed slowly upward like an albino dog tick striving for the anal gulch.

Joe R. Lansdale

#35. I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Zadie Smith

#36. We spend most of our lives striving so hard
to earn our own permission to be at rest
where we are
- when we could have done it all along.

Ivan M. Granger

#37. Striving to live the ordinary life in a non-ordinary way.

Book Of Runes

#38. Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

Roger Bannister

#39. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.

Erykah Badu

#40. The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

Daisaku Ikeda

#41. I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world
an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Craig Thompson

#42. People striving for approval from others become phony.

Ichiro Suzuki