Angela Lansbury Quotes

Always do your best.

Everyone wants to perform.

I always try to do what I know best, and that is play well.

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

I just want to do good work.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

I want to perform well.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.