Top 1200 Striving To Be The Best Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.

I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the best drummer. And when I started making beats, I was not the best beatmaker, and when I started making hooks, I was not the best vocal melody person. When I first started rapping, I wasn't the best rapper at all.

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

For me it's a new experience every single time, because - The dance community has a great strength in synergizing immediately. So we recognize that opposed to being competition, which we are in the audition process, once we're on the job is about cohesion, it's about striving to highlight each individual in their own element, while also creating something that is visually tantalizing to the audience. While the ingredients of each movie has been different, the recipe for success is the same, which is to click immediately and make the best possible movie.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

I had to experience many situations and emotions to develop, and I'm still striving to become the kind of competitor I want to be.

Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.

Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

We always keep saying, 'We're the best, we're the best.' Other countries offer healthcare for their people. We don't, so how are we the best there? We've got poverty all over the place, and it's the haves and the have-nots, so how are we the best there?

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

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

I'm always focused and enjoying the journey because this life is meant for savoring every goal reached and striving for more.

In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

I think Pride, it means ultimately, finally, being able to live with freedom in some ways. Or, at least, that's what we're striving for.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

We are in a situation where we can have a developing backup quarterback because of the excellence of Tony Romo. We can have that behind him. To me, that's what you're ideally striving for.

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

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

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

It's important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

When everyone is spitting in your face and you can be nice back to society - that is the ultimate self empowerment and that's what I was striving for.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

I was striving to become an engineer, but something happened that made me think, 'Maybe I can make games instead.'

And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

In the short term, it absolutely feels devastating to break a bond of friendship. In the long term, it is the best possible thing. You're actually doing something noble and good if you do it in the right way. You can leave them with, "I wish you the best, but I have to take care of myself." Or you don't have to wish them the best. It's okay if you don't. Maybe they don't deserve the best. That's not up to you to decide. You not wishing someone the best is not going to make anyone's life not the best.

The U.K. and India are vital strategic partners and we are striving further to strengthen our cooperation in facing global threats and challenges.

Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

I think French women are incredibly comfortable in their skin, whereas in the States people are striving more for one beauty ideal.

What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

By the nature of fashion, you're only as good as your last collection, so I'm constantly striving to be better, so I don't look at it as if I've made it.

I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.