Andy Stanley Quotes

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

When you're a coach there's no age limit. It's the results that make you last.

I think any system I can do well in.

Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?

I love to help with dreams and I love what I do on 'X Factor' as far as the mentoring and helping someone get over nervousness or reach their potential.

If we turn on our best, where do we go from there?

I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as somebody else, that they will not do anything. God has given to some people ten talents; to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to improve them.

Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

In order to do more. I've got to be more.

No one rises to low expectations

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We tend to outdo ourselves.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.