Gaston Bachelard Quotes

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

We're never satisfied with where we are as players.

There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.

I always want to grow and top myself.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

I want to do the best and be the best at what I do.

I want to keep growing, keep moving towards being one of the best in the world, and there is no better place to grow than Real Madrid.

I just want to be great.

I've always wanted to be the best.

I want to get as good as I can possibly be.

I never want to stop, and I want to try to be even better.

You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.

I am trying to pursue excellence.

I want to be the best ever.

My biggest goal as a player is to reach my full potential.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.