Theodore Zeldin Quotes

We don't aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.

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

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.

I always want to do better; I always want to find a new challenge.

There is always room for improvement even if you're getting 110 averages.

You should always want more. If you get comfortable with what you have done, you can never go to that next level.

I'm looking to try to do more out there and just taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been given.

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I'm always moving forward.

I always want to grow and top myself.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.