Haile Selassie Quotes

I just want to do something challenging.

I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.

I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

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

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.

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

I don't ever want to feel complacent.

I think you should always aim for more.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.