Being The Best Quotes - Page 8

• The severest justice may not always be the best policy

  Abraham Lincoln

  Justice, May, Prison

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.330, Wildside Press LLC

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• Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

  Randy Anderson

  Excellence, Better Than You

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• When we are weak, we can still be strong. When we're under the greatest stress and facing the greatest challenges, it may be the best day of our lives, for God is working to make us into the people he wants us to be.

  Casey Treat

  Strong, Stress, People

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• You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

  A. R. Rahman

  Passion, Mean, Possessiveness

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• I’m just a person, just Jay Park, but people expect me to be the best dancer or a man with the perfect personality. That’s not me.

  Jay Park

  Men, People, Perfect

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• Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.

  Judith Orloff

  Conspirators, Charting

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.23, Harmony

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• To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.

  Martin Dugard

  Life Lesson, Training, Mind

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.15, Rodale

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• An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

  Jalen Rose

  Opportunity, Athletic, Quality

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• Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

  Peter Norvig

  Teacher, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

  Debbi Fields

  Business, Successful, Entrepreneur

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• Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Compassion, People, Want

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• Toronto will be the best Pan American Games ever. As PASO’s President, I have said several times that I want to end my leading period with a legacy of the best Games ever; and I am sure we will do it in Toronto.

  Mario Vazquez

  Games, President, Legacy

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• Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Nba, Worry

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• Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

  Brian Tracy

  Fields, Commit, What You Love

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 05, 2014

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• That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Force, Caffeine

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

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• You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

  Jerry Garcia

  Want

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• Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

  Amby Burfoot

  Giving Up, Attitude, Struggle

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• Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the greatest,' 'the purest,' 'the most economical,' and so on ad infinitum, are hurled at the public everywhere. Surely not all products of the same class can be the best or the finest.

  Daniel Starch

  Class, Example, Use

  Daniel Starch (1914). “Advertising: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique”

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• You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.

  Terrell Davis

  Missing You, Winning, League

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• How could it be little me had the power to be The best 'B' in the league yeah inevitably

  Nicki Minaj

  League, Littles, Bragging

  Song: Blazin', Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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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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• Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Focus, Want

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• I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Ems, World

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• Being in war together may be what keeps us from being at war with each other. Rather than neglecting the battle to work on your marriage, maybe the best thing for your marriage is to enter the battlefield together.

  Francis Chan

  War, Battle, Together

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• It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

  George Eliot

  Successful, Goal, Too Late

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