Ellen Key Quotes

Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

Really, who's the best at what they do? There's always room for improvement.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.

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

I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.