Top 1200 Striving To Be The Best Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you've reached your limit, it's only the beginning, that's when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you've got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

I feel very blessed to have the support I have and to have the fans that I have. I'm still striving to make it every day.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.

Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

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

America is nation of people striving to make life better for themselves and for their families.

That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential

We're always striving to make Avatar look like a cinematic, live-action movie.

There is a much bigger picture we are all striving for. To sweat the small stuff just stresses you out for no reason.

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

For myself, it's trying to do my best in whatever I am doing. At this time, it is boxing; then when I get home, I want to be the best father, the best husband, the best man I can be.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

I've watched Spike Lee's career with interest, and he seemed to be striving for an original and moral point of view.

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

It's a constant progression, and as long as you're constantly striving to be better, you're headed in the right direction.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

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

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.

My ultimate goal is a statewide non-discrimination law with broad protections, and I will keep striving for it.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

I love to help people live fully - I guess because I'm always striving towards that myself!

For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I’m not striving for happiness, I’m trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you’re doing, working and working until you feel it’s finished. And that’s an interesting point too, that you’ve got to know when to stop. Sometimes there’s a magical moment when everything comes together.

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

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

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in shortage. I remind once more that for reds "best" is what they consider "best" for us, and not what we like.