Being The Best Quotes - Page 2

• Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

  Mia Michaels

  Motivational, Levels, Becoming

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• I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

  Peter Lik

  Success, Photography, Awards

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• Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

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• I don't work this hard just to be the best player. I do it to win.

  Holly McPeak

  Winning, Player, Hard

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• When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

  Evander Holyfield

  Fighting, Guy, Style

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  Oscar Robertson

  Success, Basketball, Sports

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• Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.

  Suzy Favor Hamilton

  Love, Sports, Running

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• I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

  Chris Paul

  Sports, Perseverance, Inspirational Basketball

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 3, 2005.

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• You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world' and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.

  Chick Webb

  Inspirational, Change, Men

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• You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.

  Serena Williams

  Prove

  Source: wwd.com

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• She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Men, Hair

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• Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

  Francine Rivers

  Christian, Trying, Pushing

  Francine Rivers (2012). “The Atonement Child”, p.84, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.

  Gregory Maguire

  Glowing, Tails, Might

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• The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Elephants, Design

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• If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Would Be, World

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Facts, Can Do

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• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Success, Being Yourself

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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• If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

  George Lois

  Ambition, Destiny, Men

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• You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Running, Pride, Race

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• Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Important, States, Middle

  Cecelia Ahern (2008). “The Gift”, HarperCollins UK

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• Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

  Paulo Coelho

  Use, Talent, Universal

  "The Winner Stands Alone". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2008.

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• How to be the best that you can be

  Meg Cabot

  Being Yourself, Hoosiers, Just Be Yourself

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• Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Running, Mad

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• It was near curfew time, and I was dropping him off for the night. He shook his head. "Rose, I don't know if you're crazy or not, but I'm actually starting to think you might be the best guardian- or soon-to-be guardian- out there." "Did you just give me a serious compliment?" I asked. He turned his back on me and headed inside his dorm. "Good night.

  Richelle Mead

  Good Night, Crazy, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.515, Penguin

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• I write storys to entertain not to be the best

  Daniel Handler

  Writing

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