Garth Nix Quotes

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.

I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I'm just trying to be the best version of Trey Young.

I'm just trying to be the best Doug Baldwin I can be.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else.

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

I release any feelings of competition or comparison. I simply do my best and enjoy being me.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.

What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.