Striving To Be The Best Quotes

• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Niece, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Valentines Day, Alchemist, Inspiring Love

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Persistence, Excellence, Self Improvement

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

  Laurence Olivier

  Perfection, Excellence, Waste

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• Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Success, Struggle, Inspiration

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Success, God, Men

  "Mahatma & the Monkeys". Book by Anuradha Kumar, p.64, March 12, 2012.

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• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Giving Up, Commitment

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• Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Disappointment, Fear

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• Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.

  Pete Carroll

  Winning, Forever, Finals

  Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin (2011). “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion”, p.39, Penguin

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• Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

  Dominick Cruz

  Greatness, Being The Best, Strive

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• It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

  Robbie Lawler

  Getting Back Up, Mma, Back To Work

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

  Brad Furman

  Being The Best, Strive, Filmmaker

  Source: collider.com

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• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Smart, Men, Hands

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• Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people that we celebrate everyday like it is Black History month by living our lives and aspiring to be all we can. Many people lost their lives for us to have the privileges we have so we need to honor them by striving to be the best we can be.

  Crystal Robinson

  People, Black History, Everyday

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• It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.

  Robbie Lawler

  Getting Back Up, Mma, Down And

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• 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

  Girl, School, Imagine

  "Fielding Questions on The Art of Fielding". Interview with Joshua Lars Weill, www.gq.com. September 2, 2011.

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