Charles Lamb Quotes

He who stops being better stops being good.

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me." It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

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

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Really, who's the best at what they do? There's always room for improvement.

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.

I love inspiring people and helping them to reach their potential.

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

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.'

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

My objective has always been to get better, no matter where my ranking is.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'

Being an actor, you go through this thing where you want to be the best, and I think, in life in general, you go through this thing where you want to be the best always, constantly.