Peggy Fleming Quotes

You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

As long as you are happy and passionate about what you are doing, you will always develop your skills to be the best you can be.

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

To give your best is to receive the best.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I'll do everything I can to reach my potential.

There's always an opportunity to be your best until I hang up my shoes.

What matters to me is that I get the most out of myself and my racing.

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.