Duke Ellington Quotes

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.

Do your best and keep learning - that's what I believe in.

I've been all the way at the bottom. Now I can only go up.

The most important thing is to try to do your best.

I see each game as an opportunity to do well.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.