Phillips Brooks Quotes

Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.

Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those.

I don't want to be just a regular great fighter. I want to be the best.

You gotta be great - you have one life.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's the ultimate compliment.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

Get a look at greatness!

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

Life is too short to be little.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.