Personal Best Quotes

“If, in fact, it is what’s inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.” ~ Andy Andrews, The Traveler’s Gift

“The last thing we want is to remain as we are.” ~ Steven Pressfield

“Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.” ~ Andy Andrews

“Regardless of what is going on around you, make the best of what is in your power, and take the rest as it occurs.” ~ Epictetus

“When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.” ~ Epictetus, The Art of Living

“It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.” ~ Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Remember, what you get by reaching your destination isn’t nearly as important as what you become by reaching your goals — what you will become is the winner you were born to be!” ~ Zig Ziglar

“That’s what building a body of work is all about. It’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It’s about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it’s never finished. It’s cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you’re not done. You haven’t even started.” ~ Barack Obama

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” ~ Anna Quindlen

“The greatest victory is the victory over ourselves. Remember, it’s always too soon to quit.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

“I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated.” ~ Emmitt Smith

“The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there’s nothing more to give… Win or lose the game is finished. It’s over. It’s time to forget and prepare for the next one.” ~ Sparky Anderson

“If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.” ~ John Maxwell

“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“Brotherhood starts the day we walk off the street and into the training hall. There, regardless of who we are, we are all the same. We leave our differences at the door and we unite for one purpose, to help ourselves and each other become the best we can be” ~ Master Karen Eden