Strive To Be Better Quotes

#1. If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.

LZ Granderson

#2. Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

Daisaku Ikeda

#3. Competition is very good ... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Christine Lahti

#4. It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

Christopher Jones

#5. When we love, we always strive to be better than we are.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Love the person you are and strive to be better, not perfect.

Michelle Hoefle

#7. Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.

Edward Kitsis

#8. Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

Kevin Garnett

#9. Successful people love what they do and feel compelled t express the best that is within them. They don't strive to be better than their neighbors or contemporaries they strive to be better than themselves.

Brian Souza

#10. Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

Demi Lovato

#11. As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.

Eric Hernandez

#12. I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

Salma Hayek

#13. Strive to be better today than you were yesterday.

James Gordon

#14. I love what I do and I strive to be better; that's what keeps me going. I'm never a slacker, always a striver.

Nicole Scherzinger

#15. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Angie Martinez

#16. I am not a good man, shei'tani," he corrected. "I never have been. But for you I will strive to be better.

C.L. Wilson

#17. I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

David Walliams

#18. Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

Joel Kinnaman

#19. Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

Jan Carlzon

#20. Does he treat you with respect ALL the time?
Is he still is the same man in 20 years would you marry him?
Does he make you strive to be a better person?

Colleen Hoover

#21. AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. And the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Paulo Coelho

#23. Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

William Morris Hunt

#24. It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth!

Yvonne Pierre

#25. It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

Edward Steichen

#26. Permanent peace and balance is an impossible goal. Far better would be to strive for a general state of equality, so that no matter what evils one kingdom might conjure, they would never be undefeatable. And

Sara Raasch

#27. The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

Jose Mujica

#28. There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

Kevin Drew

#29. No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

Diana Peterfreund

#30. Great leap forwards in mankind do not take place because of the economic values we place on them. They happen because we strive to do better and to be better. The sooner we break away from the 'if it makes money it must be good' mentality the better off we all shall be.

David Alejandro Fearnhead

#31. Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

Benjamin E. Mays

#32. Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.

Ellen DeGeneres

#33. Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

Jan Carlzon

#34. Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.

Mark Sisson

#35. I am not and never will be perfect. I am not always as honest, respectful, responsible, fair or as kind as I should be. All I can do is what I should do: strive every day, with every decision to be the best person I can be. I don't expect to be perfect but I know I can be better.

Michael Josephson

#36. What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

Winston Churchill

#37. Keep on reinventing yourself! Always strive to be a better version of yourself!

Avijeet Das

#38. Trying to get something for nothing?' - even mother nature abhors it.

Ufuoma Apoki

#39. Listen to me. I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn't say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the try.

Eric Taylor