Townes Van Zandt Quotes

I have said countless times high performance people are never satisfied with what they do or how they do it! Hence, I am always endeavouring to improve.

Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

There is always that need to feel that you're doing your possible best.

It's a challenge each and every day to just be the best that you can be at your craft.

All you can do is to do your best.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

As long as I give the best performance I can give, I know I can't do any more.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

All you can do is the best you can do.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.

My life is training.