Pushing Ourselves Quotes

• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  Change, Wisdom, New Year

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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• There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Positive, Strength, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”

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• Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Needs, Pushing

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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Success, Husband, Pushing

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• I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

  Rosie Perez

  Thinking, Glasses, Pushing Forward

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• We only get better by pushing ourselves.

  Tom Aikens

  Get Better, Pushing

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• With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.

  Tom Cruise

  Character, Careers, Stories

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• One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

  Patrick Stump

  Fall, Boys, Trying

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• We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Love, Pushing, Entry

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• Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.

  Dewitt Jones

  World, Pushing, Celebration

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• To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Men, Forever

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• We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Education, Lying, Pushing

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