Quotes on Striving To Be The Best

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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